Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1181830
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1181830
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH 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 PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fressingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 26155 77483
Details
TM 27 NE, 10/21
FRESSINGFIELD,
CHURCH STREET,
Church of St. Peter and St Paul
29.07.55
GV
II
Parish church. Medieval; restored 1870 and 1888. Nave, chancel, north and
south aisles, west tower, north and south porches. Flint rubble with stone
dressings; the side walls of the chancel are plastered. Leaded roofs.
Early
C14 square tower in four stages, with crenellated parapet. 2-light belfry
openings. C15 aisles with largely original windows. The north aisle was
extended to the east in early C16 to form a Guild Chapel, re-using a doorway
and window of early C14 date from the chancel. 6-bay clerestorey with C15
2-light windows. At the east end of the nave roof an ornate original sanctus
bell turret. Fine south porch of c1420 with C19 restoration:
flushwork-panelled facade with enriched entrance arch; above are two Tudor roses in square
panels. 2-light parvis window flanked by empty canopied niches and 3-light
traceried panels. Stone parapet with quatrefoils and cresting. Tierceron
vault with carved bosses, springing from C19 corbels. Medieval nave door.
Early C14 chancel, considerably restored in C19: an original window to the
north and two C15 windows to the south. C19 4-light east window in
Perpendicular style, shafted internally with foliage capitals.
INTERIOR: Three-bay
aisle arcades. Fine C15 single hammer-beam nave roof with a wide enriched
cornice. C15 arch-braced chancel roof. Much of the north aisle roof is
medieval: there are pierced spandrels and the wall posts rest on corbels carved
as heads. In the south aisle an ogee-headed cinquefoil piscina. In the
sanctuary an elaborate canopied piscina and triple sedilia, originally early
C14 but nearly all renewed late C19. Plain octagonal font of medieval date.
A very fine set of eighteen late C15 poppyhead benches, all with carved ends and
back-rests, and some retaining carved arm-rests. The two westernmost benches
have backs carved with twelve square panels, each to a different design. Some
other benches incorporate C15 carved components. Dado of C15 rood screen with
traceried panels.
Listing NGR: TM2615577483
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279970
- 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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