Sisland, Norfolk - St. Mary
St. Mary's is a thatched brick building, whitewashed except for where the windows and doors are picked out in red brick with a wooden bell tower rises at the east end.
Sisland church is built on the site of its medieval predecessor, which was destroyed by lightning on Sunday 12th. July 1761 at three o'clock in the afternoon, during a church service. The church appears to have been rebuilt almost immediately, the 1761 accounts detailing the purchase of 4,000 bricks and 1,100 tiles. The former north wall was reused, the south side being rebuilt, and the corners of the entrance into the north transept were kept as buttresses.
There is one single survival from the earlier building in the form of the 15th. century East Anglian style font.
St Mary's received Grade: II* listed building status on 5th. September 1960. (English Heritage Legacy ID: 227405).
Sisland, Norfolk - St. Mary
St. Mary's is a thatched brick building, whitewashed except for where the windows and doors are picked out in red brick with a wooden bell tower rises at the east end.
Sisland church is built on the site of its medieval predecessor, which was destroyed by lightning on Sunday 12th. July 1761 at three o'clock in the afternoon, during a church service. The church appears to have been rebuilt almost immediately, the 1761 accounts detailing the purchase of 4,000 bricks and 1,100 tiles. The former north wall was reused, the south side being rebuilt, and the corners of the entrance into the north transept were kept as buttresses.
There is one single survival from the earlier building in the form of the 15th. century East Anglian style font.
St Mary's received Grade: II* listed building status on 5th. September 1960. (English Heritage Legacy ID: 227405).