Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, BURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037677
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, BURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037677
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, BURY 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, BURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kentford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 70654 66795
Details
TL 76 NW
3/51
KENTFORD
BURY ROAD
Church of St. Mary
7.5.54
II*
Church, medieval with C19 alterations. Nave, chancel, west
tower and south porch. Flint rubble (rendered on part of north
wall), with dressings of clunch and limestone, parapet gables and
prominent buttressing. Concrete plaintiled roofs (the tower roof
flat with parapets of gault brick). Medieval features almost
entirely mid/late C14, but chancel has earlier core. Large 2-
light traceried windows to north and south walls; the 3-light
east window is similar, with net tracery. Moulded arched C14
doorways to the nave and chancel have C18 panelled doors; the
north nave doorway has a boarded C19 door. The tower has a fine
circular C14 west window with fragments of C15 and C19 glass.
Small ringing-chamber window on 3 sides, but the south window was
replaced by a round-arched belfry opening when the tower lost its
upper stage and was repaired C18 in gault brick. Simple
pointed tower-arch. The south porch was added later C14;
arched doorway with weathered pilaster; a mask gargoyle survives
from the original roof (the existing purlin roof was added C17).
Crow-stepped gables and C15 2-light side windows with tracery,
later blocked. On the parapet is a C19 sundial. Above the south
doorway is an empty image niche. The broad moulded chancel arch
is in the C14 manner, but probably rebuilt C19. The nave has a
plastered canted roof, renewed C19 with simple hammer beams; the
chancel has a C19 roof of arch-braced collar-beam trusses also
with vestigial hammer beams. The thorough restoration of the
chancel in 1877 is recorded in stained glass in a chancel window.
Over the north doorway is a late C14 painting of 3 crowned
figures; extensive but faint painting throughout the nave exists
beneath lime-wash. Octagonal limestone font in the C15 manner,
dated 1902. In the nave is a complete set of C18 deal boxpews.
Listing NGR: TL7065466795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275611
- 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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