Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, COOKLEY CORNER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1030493
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, COOKLEY CORNER
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1030493
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, COOKLEY CORNER
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, COOKLEY CORNER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cookley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 34952 75348
Details
TM 37 NW COOKLEY COOKLEY CORNER
2/25 Church of St. Michael 7.12.66 GV I
Parish church. Medieval, restored 1894. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, north vestry. Flint and stone rubble with some coursed work, especially to the tower;stone dressings; plaintiled roofs. Square unbuttressed C12 tower with later crenellated parapet with flushwork panels; 2-light west window with Y-tracery, one lancet window on the south face, 2- light Y-tracery bell chamber openings. Internally the east face of the tower has a blocked original window. Nave with C12 core and windows in C15 style, mostly renewed. Good C12 north doorway, now within the vestry: one order of shafts and a semi-circular arch with chevron moulding. Late C19 timber porch. 2-bay chancel, probably C14: one broad lancet window to the north, the other windows and the Priest's doorway all much restored or renewed. Good 4-bay late C15/early C16 hammerbeam nave roof with crenellated wallplate, the wall posts resting on carved timber corbels in the form of heads. 3-bay arched- braced chancel roof, probably similar in date to the nave roof. C15 font bowl with well-preserved carved panels. The nave has 4 good C15 poppyhead benches with carved ends and backs to the seats, and mutilated arm rests. 2 further simpler poppyhead benches in chancel. The chancel stalls incorporate traceried panels, probably from the rood screen. Simple trefoil-headed piscina and drop-seat sedilia in south sanctuary. Effigy brass of William Browne (1587), his wife and their 8 children, remounted on west wall of nave. Graded I for surviving medieval work.
Listing NGR: TM3495275348
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286044
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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