Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, ST OLAVES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1031950
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, ST OLAVES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1031950
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, ST OLAVES 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 MARGARET, ST OLAVES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 47663 97814
Details
HERRINGFLEET ST. OLAVES ROAD TM 49 NE 1/21 Church of St. Margaret 27.11.54 I Parish church. Medieval with C19 restoration. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch. Flint rubble, cement-rendered except for the tower; stone dressings. Thatched roofs to nave and porch, glazed black pantiles to chancel. Round tower, in 2 phases, neither later than C11. The lower part has coursed rubblework and later slit windows at 2 levels. Above a stone string course is the belfry stage: there are 4 openings, each with 2 triangular-headed lights separated by a circular shaft. 3 of the openings are set within semi-circular arched recesses, with colonnettes to the jambs and a billet frieze down the sides; the eastern opening is not treated in this way and the lights are larger. At the south west and north west are later lancets in red brick. Semi-circular tower arch with billet decoration to the west. Good C12 south nave doorway with 2 orders of colonnettes, abaci with saltire crosses and an arch with roll-moulding and chevron ornament. To the north the nave has an unmoulded doorway (blocked) and a lancet window, both of C13 date. The other nave windows (one to north, 2 to south) are late C15/early C16, each with 2 square-headed lights. One small C12 window to north chancel; 2 later windows to south, one of brick and square-headed. 3-light Perpendicular-style east window with a transom, inserted early C19. Interior. Both roofs are ceiled over. In the sanctuary a trefoil-arched piscina. Font installed c.1860. Substantially re-furnished by John Francis Leathes from 1824 onwards: poppyhead-type benches in nave and chancel, panelling against the walls. West gallery also of this date but altered 1982. The east window contains imported fragments of painted glass, mostly obtained from Cologne; they are said to date from the late C14 to early C18. The south east chancel window has 2 good stained glass figures. Several wall monuments to the Leathes family, notably John Leathes (1787) on south chancel wall. 3 hatchments to the same family at the west end of the nave.
Listing NGR: TM4766397814
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282372
- 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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