Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, DRINKINGSTONE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1032594
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, DRINKINGSTONE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1032594
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, DRINKINGSTONE 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 MARY, DRINKINGSTONE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gedding
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 95192 58126
Details
GEDDING DRINKSTONE ROAD TL 95 NE 3/64 Church of St Mary - 15.11.54 GV I Parish church, medieval. Nave, chancel and west tower. Flint rubble: upper part of tower in red brick. Freestone quoins: the nave walling is of C11/C12 and has areas of herringbone work. The church is without parapets or parapet gables. Two C12 lancets in the nave, one with shallow carving. The north doorway has C11/C12 jambs, with a C13 hoodmoulded arched head. Much mid C14 alteration: 2-light C14 windows in nave and chancel and a 3-light east window, and plain south doorways. Narrow deeply splayed chancel arch: restored sidelights with pinnacled hoodmoulds on east face. A low-side window in the chancel, square and unembellished. C15 tower with flushwork patterns in the parapets: the upper section is of late C16 or early C17 red brick with simple 2-light belfry windows: the nave face of the tower has buttresses rising from squinches with carved grotesques beneath. The nave has a scissor-braced coupled-rafter roof, with a cornice moulded in the C14 manner. The chancel roof is probably of a similar date, but is ceiled apart from the cornice. Octagonal C14 font with traceried panelled sides. 4 C15 poppyhead benches, and another perhaps C17 and crudely-formed.
Listing NGR: TL9519258126
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280817
- 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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