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The Parish Church of St Agnes

The Parish Church Of St Agnes

Cawston

Norfolk

TG 1323, 1/33 CAWSTON, CHURCH LANE, The Parish Church of St. Agnes.

Architectural Features

10/5/61 G.V. I Parish Church, mainly C15, of Ashlar, flint with stone dressings, and render, with lead and slate roofs.

Early C15 tower, of 4 stages with 2 decorated base courses, continued inside the nave.

Tierceron vault inside with carved corbels and bosses.

Stone parapet with gargoyles.

Parapet decorated with flushwork shields roses and gargoyles.

Early C16 timber ringing gallery in base of tower, with stopped and chamfered floor joists spanning between roll moulded beams supported on moulded posts with attached half octagonal shafts with base and capitals.

Balustrade with carved balusters and fascia with carved inscription for its length.

Fine single hammerbeam roof with carved angels standing on the hammer beams bearing evidence of original paint.

Hammer beams supported on octagonal wall posts with bases and capitals, supported on carved stone corbels.

Longitudinal arch braces support carved frieze over clerestorey windows, and decorated with angels bearing shields or musical instruments.

Purlins and principal rafters are moulded and have at their intersections carved bosses.

Figures on most eastern hammer beams probably C19 restorations.

Arch braces supported on carved stone corbels.

South aisle roof looks C17 with ovolo mouldings and ogee nicked stops to principal beams which have small arch braces supported on stone corbels.

Wall painting on east wall.

Chancel arch with C14 base and capitals.

Double piscina and dropped sill sedilia replaced by 3 stalls with C14 misericords with much carving.

C15 arcade to north chancel chapel with arch-braced roof.

Altar rails are C17 with turned balusters and newels with acorn finials.

Perpendicular hexagonal pulpit with foot resting on stone finial base.

Octagonal font, on one step, the bowl with Perpendicular blind arcade.

A few small brasses C14 tomb in south transept, re-positioned so that a man and woman now lie head to head.

Mediaeval poor box.