CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT

CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, FALKENHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1030914
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, FALKENHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1030914
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Jun-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, FALKENHAM ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, FALKENHAM ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Falkenham
National Grid Reference:: TM 29331 39043

Details

TM 2E NE FALKENHAM FALKENHAM ROAD (track off north side) CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT 2/3 16.3.66 Gv II*

Parish Church. C15 tower, C14 nave restored early C19 together with south porch which still retains its original stone quoins and most of its moulded C14 entrance arch; porch converted to vestry late C19. Late C19 semi-octagonal brick apse added to south end of nave. Former chancel demolished C17 or C18. Plain tiled roof with brick facing and stone dressings. 3 stage, battlemented tower in random flint, flushwork and string courses at each stage, diagonal buttresses to west front, angled buttresses to east; west door has pointed, moulded arch studded with fleurons, and surmounted with shields representing the Earl of Warwick and the Mowbray family 1428-1471. Above west doorway is a C19 window in decorated style; belfry has restored C19 louvred windows. The nave walls are probably of septaria and encased in gault brick. The interior has a restored C14 single-hammer beam and arched braced roof with angels to bases of wall posts and the hammer beams end with crowned figures holding shields. C15 font with octagonal bowl and eight panels carved with emblems of the four Evangelists alternating with angels and other figures bearing shields. The apse has a reredos with carved centre piece which was once the front of a chest. Tower contains 4 bells, 2 cast by T. Darbie of Ipswich in 1666 and 2 by T. Gardiner of Sudbury in 1728. Graded II* for tower.

Listing NGR: TM2933139043

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 284984
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.