Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, ALL SAINTS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033245
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, ALL SAINTS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033245
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, ALL SAINTS 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, ALL SAINTS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Creeting St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 09382 56703
Details
TM 05 NE
4/49
CREETING ST. MARY
All Saints Road (North Side)
Church of St. Mary
9-12-55
GV
II*
Parish church. Medieval; with much remodelling 1884-7, including rebuilding
of upper stage of tower and addition of north aisle in the Decorated style.
Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, north aisle and vestry. Flint rubble
with freestone dressings. Plaintiled roofs with parapet gables and stone
crosses. C12 south doorway with shafts, scalloped capitals and a lunette-
enriched arch. The chancel has work of c.1300: a pair of hood-moulded 2-light
windows and a simple cusped piscina. Large net-traceried C14 east window.
Good C15 south porch, the south face covered in trefoil-headed flushwork
panels; the doorway has triple attached shafts and the hoodmould springs from
angel corbels. Above is a niche, now bearing a C19 image. Complete coupled-
rafter roof with embattled cornice. The tower has a 2-light west window of
c.1400, with a stone panel bearing a cross above it; prominent C19 parapets
and gargoyles. An early C16 3-light south window in the nave. Fine C15
octagonal limestone font, with the Evangelists alternating with figures
bearing shields around the stem, angels beneath, and lions supporting the
stem. Original crocketed oak cover, with major C19 restoration. Wall
monument in the tower to Rear Admiral Samuel Uvedale (d.1808) and wife
Margaret (d.1814). Three C18 marble floor slabs in nave. Some late C19
stained glass by Kempe, and later Kempe and Tower.
Listing NGR: TM0938256703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279298
- 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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