Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1030531
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1030531
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HALL ROAD
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 MARY, HALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Parham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM3095160507
Details
TM 36 SW PARHAM HALL ROAD
4/149 Church of
7.12.66 St. Mary
GV I
Parish church. Medieval, the nave and tower probably late C14
for William de Ufford, second Earl of Suffolk; restored 1886-8.
Nave, chancel, west tower, north porch (now the vestry). Random
flint rubble, the chancel plastered, stone dressings; lead roof
to nave, felted roof to chancel. Square tower with flat stone
parapet and 4-stage buttresses; chequered flushwork to plinth and
buttresses; the west face has a finely moulded doorway, 2-light
window and a large niche for 3 images with cusped arch and gable
with finial and buttress shafts. One-light cinquefoil-headed
bell chamber openings except west face which has a 2-light
square-headed opening. 3-bay nave with flat parapet and
buttresses with flushwork. South nave with tall 2-light windows
without tracery, probably C19; north nave with 2 good C15 windows
and one further C19 window. Good C15 porch, the facade and
crenellated parapet with panel led flushwork; enriched plinth;
carved spandrels to doorway with niche above; original door to
nave. C15 2-bay chancel: 2-light windows with 3-light east
window. Priest's doorway to north with the Ufford arms above.
5-bay nave roof, the wall posts resting on C14 carved corbels; 3-
bay chancel roof; both roofs seem largely C19. Early C15
octagonal font, the bowl carved with traceried panels and shields
of the Ufford and Willoughby families. The nave has a cinquefoil-
headed piscina (south wall), rood loft stairs (north wall) and 2
pointed niches either side of the chancel arch. Good set of late
C19 poppyhead benches. C15 painted wooden rood screen. 2 C15
benches in chancel; mid C17 altar rails with poor box attached by
a chain; south sanctuary with piscina and drop-seat sedilia; in
the north sanctuary are 12 stone heraldic shields of local
families, probably brought from a monument elsewhere; reredos
with painted panel and re-used C17 woodwork. 2 hatchments in
chancel. Royal Arms of Charles II over north nave door. Several
C17-C19 ledger slabs in chancel. East window with fragments of
C15 glass. Graded I for surviving medieval fabric, especially
tower and porch.
Listing NGR: TM3095160507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 285921
- 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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