Cut Bench Mark - St.Nicholas' Church, Church Street, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, NR23 1EQ - U.K. and Ireland Trigpoints on Waymarking.com

Wells-next-the-Sea is mentioned several times in the Domesday book of 1086, by which time it was clearly already a substantial place, but no church was mentioned. In 1202 Ramsey abbey obtained a charter allowing it to expand the port, but the church stands a little way outside the early C13th planned town by the harbour, and was certainly already well established by the early C13th.

The Grade II* listed church is dedicated to St.Nicholas and is Perpendicular in origin, but was badly damaged in a fire in 1879 and almost wholly rebuilt to designs of Herbert Green the diocesan architect. There is no fabric surviving from pre-Perpendicular times but the tower is C15th and from this and some other surviving C15th fragments the Medieval church was substantial and well detailed.

The Cut Bench Mark can just be discerned on the south-west face of the south-west tower buttress, see the photoin the gallery, it's almost all gone due to severe spalling of the stone-work. The mark was last verified in 1967 as being 5.407m above the Newlyn datum and is 0.200m above ground.

Type of Trigpoint: Cut Bench Mark Condition: Damaged Number on Flush Bracket: none

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