Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1031997
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1031997
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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 ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- All Saints and St. Nicholas, South Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 32968 82802
Details
SOUTH ELMHAM ALL SAINTS CHURCH LANE TM 38 SW ALL SAINTS & ST. NICHOLAS (OFF)
4/21 Church of All Saints
1.9.53
- I
Former parish church, now in the care of the Redundant Churches Board. C12 and C14 with some C15 and C17 features, considerably restored in 1870. Continuous nave and chancel; south aisle and south porch; round west tower. In random flint with freestone dressings and lead roof. On the north side, 3 single-light round-headed Norman windows with deep internal splays; 2 C14 single-light cusped windows, and 2 C13 2-light windows with cusped plate tracery. 3 Y-tracery windows to the south aisle, which extends the full length of the nave and chancel. 3-light east window with intersecting tracery. North doorway removed, and opening blocked. The small round west tower is in 3 stages, the top stage rebuilt, with battlemented top. In the lowest stage the rubble flint is coursed, and there is a Norman west window with deep inner splay. Small, round-headed windows to the second stage. The south porch is basically medieval, with a facade of flint and stone chequer work, but heavily Victorianised. Simple Victorian Romanesque south doorway. Interior with a C14 arcade between the south aisle and the body of the church: in that part of the arcade beside the chancel, the arches have been pushed up into a stilted form. Piscina in chancel in much restored Early English style: recesses to each side of it, that on the east, with a drain, is almost to ground level. C12 font with large square bowl decorated with shallow blank arches, central column, and 4 small outer colonettes on a rectangular scalloped base. At the back of the nave, 2 small C15 benches with poppyheads and animals on the arm-rests. These were formerly in the porch, and are very weathered. The remaining nave benches have poppyheads only: some C15, and some good C19 reproduction. Above the door to the tower stair, in the north- west corner of the nave, a C15 stone panel with shield and elaborate leaf surround in high relief. A wide door to the tower arch is made of elaborately carved Jacobean panels, with some later replacements. The remaining interior fittings are Victorian. C15 roof to the nave in 5 bays, with arched braces and high cambered collars. The chancel roof, much restored in C19, has arched-braced collars and moulded purlins and appears basically C17.
Listing NGR: TM3296882802
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282281
- 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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