Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1180826
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1180826
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH 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 ST MARY, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ixworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 93140 70390
Details
TL 9270-9370 IXWORTH HIGH STREET (WEST SIDE) 3/2 3.2.50 Church of St Mary
GV I Parish Church. Principally in random flint with freestone dressings. Late C14 south porch in knapped flint, with embattled parapet and flushwork panelling to south face. Late C15 nave with clerestorey: north and south aisles. Nave roof in 5 bays: low pitched, cambered and moulded tie-beams with winged angels at base of braces and along cornice. Similar mouldings on both aisle roofs. Nave and aisle roofs are leaded: money for 'ledying' bequeathed by Robert Garrard in 1533. Floors paved with small C18 tiles in cream and red. Mid C19 pulpit and bench ends: traditional poppy-heads. C15 octagonal font, probably originally on a high base. An iron-bound alms box near the south door. C14 chancel, heavily restored in 1850's. Steeply pitched, plaintiled roof. On south side the priest's door has a holy water stoup set into wall beside it. At the east end, an external niche with cusped head, which probably contained a stone rood. In the south east angle, an external turret for the stair to the rood loft. Roof with alternate arched brace and hammerbeam trusses: spandrels infilled with delicate tracery. C13 double piscina. On north side, tomb chest with decorated pilasters and 3 shields to Richard Coddington (d.1567) and his wife: Italian leaf-carving on rounded arch of back, 3 vertically-placed brasses. Memorial east window of 1860's in Decorated style. Late C15 west tower with 4 diagonal buttresses and battlemented parapet. The plinth, parapet, and the faces of the buttresses have decorated panels and emblems in knapped flint. The third panel up on the south-east buttress has the crown and arrows saltire of St. Edmund and the inscription 'Mast Robt Schot Abot': Robert Schot came from Ixworth, and was Abbot at Bury St Bdmnnds from 1469 to 1474. 3 inscribed tiles, 2 from the south wall, the other from near the west doorway, are now placed inside the base of the tower: those from the south wall are dated 1472; the other reads 'Thome Vyal gaf to the stepil iiij li'. Thomas Vyal left £4 to the building of the tower in his will, proved 1472. This dating evidence indicates that work on the tower began in the 1470's.
Listing NGR: TL9314070390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 283610
- 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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