Church of SS Peter and Paul
CHURCH OF SS PETER AND PAUL, GREEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1032509
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of SS Peter and Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SS PETER AND PAUL, GREEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1032509
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of SS Peter and Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SS PETER AND PAUL, GREEN STREET
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 SS PETER AND PAUL, GREEN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hoxne
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 18139 77507
Details
HOXNE GREEN STREET TM 17 NE 7/82 Church of SS. Peter and 29.7.55 Paul GV I Parish church. Medieval; chancel rebuilt 1853. Restored 1879-80. Nave, chancel, north aisle, west tower, south porch, north vestry. Flint rubble, the tower faced in knapped flint; stone dressings. Nave roof clad in copper, chancel roof slated. Fine C15 square tower, in 4 stages, with diagonal buttresses and crenellated parapet; polygonal stair turret projects on south side and rises above parapet. Around the plinth a frieze of cusped panels containing shields. West doorway is enriched with fleurons, crowns, mitres and shields; a hoodmould encloses rose-carved spandrels. Part of the door is original. Above is a 3-light window flanked by canopied image niches. 3- light belfry openings (renewed). Nave is substantially C15: to the south are 4 tall 2-light windows, considerably restored; moulded south doorway with hoodmould supported by 2 large crowned heads. C15 porch with original roof. To the north a range of 5 2-light clerestorey windows. C15 nave aisle has 3 restored 3-light windows and a doorway enriched with shields and fleurons. North aisle extended by 2 bays to east c.1475 to form a Lady Chapel, the windows now renewed. Chancel is in Perpendicular style, with a 4-light east window and 2-light windows to the south. Interior. Low 6-bay aisle arcade, perhaps of late C13 date. The Lady Chapel has a single arch to the chancel and to the nave aisle. Nave roof has an incomplete C15 cornice with embattled ornament and fleurons; the remainder of the roof seems to be a C17 reconstruction. Nave aisle has original roof, the main components moulded; 2 lower needled tie beams are C17 insertions, one bearing the date 1621. On the north nave wall are 4 C15 paintings showing St. Christopher, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Acts of Mercy and the Last Judgement. Mid C15 carved octagonal font; the tall cover is dated 1879. At east end of nave aisle are 4 benches with C15 poppyhead ends and carved arm-rests. The remainder of the nave and chancel seating is mid-late C19. Against east wall of Lady Chapel is a large marble monument to Thomas Maynard (1742) by Charles Stanley. This shows a life-size figure standing against an urn set on a pedestal; the pedestal has a well-carved relief of women and children. The whole is set against a black marble obelisk. 2 ledger slabs at east end of nave have C17 brass inscriptions.
Listing NGR: TM1813977507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281023
- 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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