The Old Church

THE OLD CHURCH, EYE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1032380
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1955
Statutory Address:
THE OLD CHURCH, EYE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1032380
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
23-Jun-1988
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD CHURCH, EYE ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD CHURCH, EYE ROAD

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Rishangles
National Grid Reference:
TM 16052 68646

Details

RISHANGLES EYE ROAD TM 16 NE 4/50 The Old Church 29.7.55 (formerly listed as Church of St Margaret) - II* Former parish church, converted to residential use 1986-7. Medieval, restored 1877 and 1884. Nave, chancel, south tower. Flint rubble with stone dressings; chancel has repairs in C16-C17 red brick. Roof of C19 plaintiles. Late C14 square 2-stage tower with 3-stage diagonal buttresses to south face. Crenellated parapet with flushwork. Base of tower forms porch: much-weathered moulded entrance arch, the innermost part enriched with fleurons. Belfry openings have missing tracery. Core of nave substantially of c.1200. Original south doorway with semi-circular keel-moulded arch, the hoodmould with dogtooth ornament; one order of colonnettes in the jambs. 2 lancet windows of similar date. C14 north nave doorway with unmoulded 2-centred arch; remains of stoup to west. Other nave windows are in Perpendicular style, much renewed C19. 2 flush rooflights of 1986-7. Chancel probably of C15 date: to the north, a single 2-light window with square head; to the south, a 2-light window with depressed 2-centred arch and a C19 window with a pair of trefoil-headed lights under a square head. 3-light east window, renewed in C19. Interior. C15 arch-braced chancel roof in 4 bays, the high collars supporting king-posts to a ridge piece, below which is east-west bracing. Nave roof is of late C19 date, based broadly on the chancel roof. No chancel arch, Chancel has ogee piscina, probably C15. Rood stair in south east nave. Furnishings and monuments removed prior to conversion.

Listing NGR: TM1605268646

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