Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031989
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031989
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH 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, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Flixton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 31211 86693
Details
FLIXTON BY BUNGAY CHURCH ROAD TM 38 NW 2/4 Church of St. Mary 1.9.53
- II*
Parish church. Although a church is mentioned at Flixton in the Domesday survey (1086) little trace of that remains; the present building was almost completely reconstructed at various times in the C19. Black knapped flint with lavish stone dressings; lead roofs with battlemented guttering. Nave, chancel, north aisle, west tower and south porch. The west tower, 1856, by Salvin, replaces the earlier tower, said to be Saxon, which collapsed. It is built in a Saxo-Norman style, with 2-light Saxon windows to the top stage and a helm roof, plaintiled, and surmounted by a weathercock. Salvin considered that there was sufficient evidence from the earlier remains to postulate a helm roof, of which only one authentic example, at Sompting, Sussex, exists in England; a sketch of the building made by Isaac Johnson in 1818 does not support the assumption. Nave of 1861, with gabled buttresses in C14 style and 2-light traceried windows. Chancel of 1894 in an oppressive Romanesque style with single-light round-headed and circular windows and a Lombardic frieze below the eaves. The interior of the nave and the north aisle have benches with good poppy-head bench-ends. The early C14 north arcade is the only part of the medieval structure to survive: in 4 bays, with piers of quatrefoil section and arches with 2 wave mouldings. Small C16 octagonal pulpit on a slender base, with a double row of square panels, some with heraldic carving, some with linenfold. On the nave floor, a small brass to Elizabeth, wife of John Tasburgh, d.1583, and various black ledger slabs, those of the C17 to members of the Tasburgh family, those of later date to the Adairs. 2 tablets on the south wall of the nave, one to William Adair, d.1783, with a relief of the Good Samaritan. 3 C18 marble and stone tablets on the north wall. At the back of the north aisle, a small octagonal memorial chapel in Early English style with groined stone roof, erected in 1895 to the memory of Theodosia, Lady Waveney, d.1871. It contains a life-size kneeling figure of Lady Waveney, a major work of John Bell.
Listing NGR: TM3121186693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282264
- 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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