St Andrew's Church, Frenze

St Andrew's Church, Frenze

A small stone church with a red tiled roof seen from the southwest, showing a south porch and a small bellcote

St Andrew's Church, Frenze, from the southwest
St Andrew's Church, Frenze
Location in Norfolk
Coordinates: 52°22′49″N 1°08′10″E / 52.3802°N 1.1361°E / 52.3802; 1.1361
OS grid reference TM 136 804
Location Frenze, Norfolk
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website Churches Conservation Trust
History
Dedication Saint Andrew
Architecture
Functional status Redundant
Heritage designation Grade I
Designated 7 December 1959
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic, Tudor
Specifications
Materials Stone with tiled roof
Brick porch

St Andrew's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the civil parish of Scole, Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] The church stands in an isolated position adjacent to Frenze Hall, near to the long distance footpath, Boudica's Way (Boudicca Way), 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Diss.[2][3]

History

The church was built in the early 14th century, and the south porch was added in the early 16th century. A bellcote was built at a later date.[1] Although the church is now redundant, services and other events are held occasionally.[4]

Architecture

The body of the church is constructed in stone and consists of a nave without a chancel. The east window has three lights, and the windows in the north, south and west walls have two lights.[1] The gabled porch is brick and is in Tudor style. It is supported by buttresses, and has two-light windows with brick mullions in the side walls. The bellcote sits on the ridge towards the west end of the church.[1]

Inside the church is a large Jacobean pulpit with a tester dating from the early 17th century.[1][2] Dating from the same period is a manorial box pew. Some of the benches date from the 15th century, and one of these is carved with tracery and poppyheads on its ends. The font is octagonal and dates from the 14th century.[1] Above the south door is a Royal coat of arms. There are two piscinae, one on each side of the church.[5] The church contains seven brasses, most in memory of members of the Blennerhassett family. The oldest is dated 1475, and others date from the early 16th century.[5][6] The single bell was cast in 1707 by Joseph Goldsmith.[4]

One of the curates here was a young George Wilson Bridges who went on to some controversy.[7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Historic England, "Church of St Andrew, Frenze, Scole (1050244)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 24 September 2013
  2. 1 2 3 St Andrew's Church, Frenze, Norfolk, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 25 March 2011
  3. ↑ Frenze, Streetmap, retrieved 13 February 2011
  4. 1 2 St Andrew's Church, Frenze, Benefice of Dickleburgh and the Pulhams, archived from the original on 20 March 2012, retrieved 24 September 2013
  5. 1 2 Knott, Simon (March 2005), St Andrew, Frenze, Norfolk Churches, retrieved 13 February 2011
  6. ↑ Frenze, St Andrew's Church, Britain Express, retrieved 13 February 2011
  7. ↑ George Wilson Bridges, Jim Brenan, Legacies of British Slave-ownership, UCL, Retrieved 8 January 2016
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