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OLD MINISTER RUINS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031964
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1953
List Entry Name:: OLD MINISTER RUINS
Statutory Address:: OLD MINISTER RUINS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031964
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1953
List Entry Name:: OLD MINISTER RUINS
Statutory Address 1:: OLD MINISTER RUINS

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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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD MINISTER RUINS

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Cross, South Elmham
National Grid Reference:: TM3073282657

Details

TM 38 SW 4/45 1.9.53

SOUTH ELMHAM ST. CROSS Old Minister Ruins

II

Ruins. Traditionally thought to be those of a Minster relating to the See of Elmham created in the C7, although the surviving structure seems likely to date only from the C11. In flint rubble, coursed where the outer: surfaces remain. The building had the form of a small Romanesque church, with nave, a narthex to the west, and an apsidal east end, although nothing remains of the latter above ground level. The nave, 38 feet long and 27 feet wide, has walls still partly standing to a height of 14 feet, with evidence for window openings. The narthex is 26 feet square, and had windows on each side and a wide west door. The building is surrounded by a large square enclosure with a bank and ditch, said to be of Roman origin, though this is unproven. For the most recent account of the site cf. N. Smedley and E. Owles, Excavations at the Old Minster, South Elmham, Procs. Suff. Inst. Arch. for 1971 Vol. XXXII, part I pp.1-16. Further excavations in 1985, undertaken by the Suffolk Archaeological Unit in conjunction with Sheffield University, failed to produce any further evidence of the origins of the building. Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Listing NGR: TM3073282657

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Legacy System number:: 282305
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History' in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, , Vol. 32, (1971), 1-16

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.