All Saints Westlegate, Norwich
All Saints Westlegate, Norwich
All Saints Westlegate is a Grade I former parish church on Westlegate, Norwich, now in the care of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust.
- Location
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Country
- England
- County
- Norfolk
- City / town
- Norwich
- Address
- Westlegate, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 3LG
- Postcode
- NR1 3LG
- Built
- C15 and C16; tower top added 1913
- Denomination
- Local Historic/Redundant Churches Trust
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- Norwich
- Parish
- Norwich St John Timberhill
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular
- Materials
- Flint with stone and brick dressings; plain tile roofs
- Grid reference
- TG 231 082
- Opening hours
- Open everyday: Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm. Saturday 10am to 6pm. Sunday 11am to 4pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England records a former parish church of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: flint with stone and brick dressings and plain-tile roofs. The plan is a west tower, nave and chancel, north aisle and south porch. The unbuttressed tower has brick quoins; its top stage was added in 1913. The four-bay nave has three-light Perpendicular windows with four-centred arches. The two-bay chancel has early fifteenth-century two-light windows with reticulated tracery. Arcade piers are heavy and octagonal, with three-order four-centred arches. The nave roof has open trusses, a single butt-purlin, and curved braces from alternating high and low wall posts.
The church was made redundant in 1973 and passed to the Trust, which first made it watertight. From 1979 it housed the All Saints Centre; after that closed in 2015 the building reopened as an antiques centre.