Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, UPPER SOMERTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1033564
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, UPPER SOMERTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1033564
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, UPPER SOMERTON
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 MARGARET, UPPER SOMERTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 81086 53015
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/02/2015
TL 85 SW 3/781
5377
UPPER SOMERTON, Somerton,
Church of St Margaret
(Formerly listed as Church of All Saints)
23.3.61.
I
A small C13 flint church with a blocked Norman north doorway with 1 order of shafts with scalloped heads. The west tower has diagonal buttresses and a castellated parapet with flint and stone chequer work. The chancel and chancel chapel are early C14. The east window is perpendicular, with early C14 shafting on the inside. There is a shafted squint. The interior has a fine octagonal Jacobean pulpit with ornamented panels, and a Jacobean or early Stuart communion rail. The C15 octagonal font is carved with rose and shields. Graded for its architectural and historical interest.
Listing NGR: TL8108653015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278525
- 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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