Church of All Saints

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1032170
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1032170
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Frostenden
National Grid Reference:
TM 47923 81755

Details

TM 48 SE FROSTENDEN

1/5 Church of All Saints - 27/11/54 GV I

Parish church. Medieval, restored c.1890. Nave, chancel, south aisle, west tower, south porch. Flint rubble, plastered except for the tower; stone dressings; plaintiled roofs to nave and chancel. Round tower, C12 or probably earlier: later lancet windows, with single-light bell-chamber openings to each quarter; crenellated parapet. 3-bay aisle, probably C15, with renewed 2-light windows. The porch forms a western continuation of the aisle, and has a quadripartite vault; 4-centre entrance arch with C18 sundial over. The nave door is probably original. To the north the nave has 3 2-light C19 windows in Perpendicular style. 2-bay chancel with windows in perpendicular style, those to the north partly original, the remainder renewed C19; simple priest's doorway to south. Interior. 3-bay aisle arcade. Lean-to aisle roof, largely original. No chancel arch. C13 work in chancel: the large east window is shafted and has dogtooth-type ornament to the arch; the piscina has a similarly-ornamented arch and there is a small portion of another arch to the west, probably over the sedilia. Cinquefoil-headed piscina in aisle. C15 carved octagonal font, the shaft with 8 engaged columns; C15 font cover, reduced from the original. The chancel has 5 C15 poppyhead beaches and 2 fine traceried poppyhead bench ends now incorporated in a reading,desk. Wall monuments in chancel to Sir William Glover (1660), William Glover (1726) and Thomas Pretyman, rector (1756). Several good C18 ledger slabs in chancel floor.

Listing NGR: TM4792381755

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
281870
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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