Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CAVENDISH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1031774
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CAVENDISH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1031774
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CAVENDISH
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, CAVENDISH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cavendish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 80513 46549
Details
CAVENDISH
832/17/5 CAVENDISH
19-DEC-61 CHURCH OF ST MARY
GV I
Doomsday Book records a church of Saxon origin at Clare. This was succeeded
by a Norman Church which gave place to the present flint and stone dressed
church which is of the C14 to C17. The tower (circa 1300) has a castellated
parapet, diagonal buttresses and an octagonal castellated staircase turret.
The ground storey is stone, vaulted, with a priests' Chamber above which has
an original fireplace and window suround. The nave clerestorey (circa 1485)
has a castellated parapet and interesting stone and flint traceried {ornamentation.} An inscription below the parapet, now mostly illegible, attributes its erection to one of the Smythe family. It also has 2 Tudor lead rainwater heads ornamented with roses and leopards heads. The nave has an arch-braced tie-beam roof with carved spandrels, springing from niched wall posts with figures. The north and south aisles are C15, with C17 pendants and ornamentation to the roof of the north aisle. The chancel (circa 1381) was extensively repaired in the C17. It had buttresses and a deep plinth with knapped flint chequer work. The roof is tiled. In the south aisle there is a C14 octagonal font with a traceried shaft and Evangelist emblems on the bowl (defaced during Cromwellian time).
Listing NGR: TL8051346549
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282860
- 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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