CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS'

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS', THE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1180967
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS'
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS', THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1180967
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS'
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS', THE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS', THE STREET

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County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Laxfield
National Grid Reference:: TM 29617 72444

Details

LAXFIELD THE STREET TM 27 SE

9/52 Church of All Saints' - 29.7.55 GV I

Parish church. Medieval; east bay of nave and whole of chancel rebuilt 1827. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch. Nave and porch of flint rubble, with stone dressings; the tower is largely faced in dressed stone. 1827 work faced in white brick except to north where there is random rubblework. Slated roofs. Very fine late C15 tower in 4 stages, with polygonal clasping buttresses. Good flushwork panelling to buttresses, the belfry stage and the whole of the west face. Enriched west doorway with carved spandrels; above is a quatrefoil frieze and a 4-light window flanked by canopied niches. 4-light belfry openings. Crenellated parapet with stone panelling and tall pinnacles with crocketted spirelets. Early C14 nave in 5 bays, the windows later replacements in Perpendicular style except for one to north. Easternmost bay has C19 3- light windows with intersecting Y-tracery. C15 porch, repaired in C18 with red brick: knapped flint facade flanked by buttresses each containing a canopied statue niche; entrance arch hung with shields, and with carved shields in the spandrels. Remains of a vaulted roof. The porch was intended to have an upper storey and is said to have been left incomplete. Small chancel with later additions; a 3-light east window. Interior. The scissor- braced trussed rafter nave roof spans 11m; the arched braces spring from posts supported by short hammerbeams, at the end of which are carved heads. Coved cornice. In south west angle of nave is the niche of a banner stave locker. Fine octagonal font of c.1500, carved with the Seven Sacraments and the Baptism of Christ. Tall 2-stepped base with traceried risers, the upper step with raised sections forming a Maltese Cross. Nave seating comprises: (i) 4 fine poppyhead benches with carved ends and backs and mutilated arm-rests; (ii) 13 poppyhead benches of 1622; (iii) C18 box pews incorporating re-used C15 and C17 poppyhead benches and C16 and C17 panelling, much of it elaborately carved; (iv) at the west end tiered boys' seats of early C19, incorporating early C17 work. At the nave east end is a dado of re-used panelling. Good C15 rood screen with traceried dado and ogee-arched traceried divisions above. Early C17 carved pulpit and contemporary reading desk in similar style. Arms of Anne over north door.

Listing NGR: TM2961772444

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.