Church of St Botolph
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1030504
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Botolph
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1030504
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Botolph
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH
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 BOTOLPH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Culpho
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 21015 49124
Details
TM 24 NW
4/1
CULPHO
Church of St. Botolph
16. 3. 66
II*
Church, medieval, restored 1884. Nave, chancel, south-west tower/porch.
Flint rubble (the nave partly plastered), limestone dressings. Plaintiled
roofs with parapet gables; the tower has a pyramid plaintiled roof with open
eaves. Chancel of mid C13: south doorway hoodmoulded with corbel faces, and
single-light north and south windows. Early C14 alterations: 3-light windows
with intersecting tracery in north and south walls, Y-tracery 2-light windows
in nave side walls. C14 nave doorway, roll-and-fillet moulded with square
label, original oak door with moulded ribs; inside is a stoup. A C14
trefoiled piscina, with adjacent dropped-cill sedilia cut into earlier south
chancel window. Another piscina for south nave side-altar. Plain C14 south
doorway, blocked by C17/C18 brickwork. Tower, with porch formed within ground
floor, added C15; simple doorway. The upper stage was removed, perhaps
c.1700. Nave roof rebuilt C17, with moulded wall-pieces, otherwise plain (an
archdeacon's report of 1602 describes both nave and chancel as "exceeding
ruinous"). Chancel arch of moulded stucco with flanking red brick walling;
Gothick in form perhaps of late C17 or early C18. Scissor-braced chancel roof
of 1884 with sections of moulded cornice perhaps of C14, reused. Octagonal
C15 limestone font, traceried, with restored C17 oak cover. 3 painted panels
on nave walls, late C18, with Credence, Lord's prayer and Ten Commandments.
Listing NGR: TM2101549124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 285963
- 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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