Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, HIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032004
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, HIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032004
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, HIGH 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 BARTHOLOMEW, HIGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shipmeadow
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 38202 89981
Details
SHIPMEADOW HIGH ROAD TM 38 NE 4/45 Church of St. Bartholomew 1-9-53 - II* Parish church, disused at the time of survey (May 1985). Medieval, with early C16 tower; restored 1851. Nave, chancel, west tower, north porch, south vestry. The nave and chancel are of flint rubble, plastered, with stone dressings. Flint and brick tower; rendered brick porch. Plaintiled roofs. Square tower, with 3-stage diagonal buttresses to the west face and angle buttresses against the north and south faces on the east side; flat parapet. Rectangular belfry openings without tracery. The fabric of the nave is largely C12: one original window remains on the north side; various later windows, mostly restored. Later C15 nave doorway. Early C14 chancel, the walls subsequently raised, probably in C19: various Y-traceried windows, one to the north with an enriched hood mould, one to the south blocked by the vestry but visible internally. 3-light east window with reticulated tracery, probably C19. Interior. C19 coupled rafter nave roof in 4 bays with scissor- bracing to the principal trusses. Chancel roof also C19. Blocked doorway in south chancel wall. On each side of the chancel at the entrance to the sanctuary is a pierced stone corbel, said to have been used for supporting the Lenten veil. C15 carved octagonal font. The rood screen has a C15 dado with traceried panels, some of the tracery renewed; the upper part of the screen is C19. The other furnishings are C19.
Listing NGR: TM3820289981
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282196
- 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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