CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1182197
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1182197
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, 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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Walsham-le-Willows
National Grid Reference:: TL 99974 71111

Details

TL 97 SE WALSHAM LE WILLOWS THE STREET (SOUTH SIDE)

2/59 Church of St Mary 15/11/54

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Parish church. C14 and C15, in Perpendicular style throughout. Interior restored 1878. Nave, chancel, north and south aisles, north porch and west tower; a small vestry added to the north side of chancel. In random kidney flint with strap pointing; freestone dressings; lead roofs to nave and aisles; plaintiles to chancel. The tower has a moulded freestone base; random black knapped flint to the lower stages with an admixture of small stone blocks; 5 stages; the buttresses, diagonal on the west-end and faced with freestone, are stepped in 4 stages. Stair turret, with 4 small slit windows, on south side. West door with continuous multiple moulding to arch, and hood-mould; 3-light window above with mouchettes in the tracery; a 2-light cusped window to each face of the top stage. Embattled parapet faced with trefoil flushwork panels; corner pinnacles with heraldic beasts. The north aisle has a base of lozenge- patterned flushwork and 3 3-light windows with cusped traceried heads; diagonal stepped buttresses to east and west faced with flint and stone panels. The fine north porch projects from the north aisle, and is faced entirely in lozenge-patterned flushwork. An empty ogee-headed niche above the doorway. Shallow-pitched open timber roof with embattled cornice. Stone benches along the side walls with wooden panelling above, inscribed, and dated 1541. ,North doorway with continuous moulded arch and hood-mould with supporting heads. The south aisle has a base of large square freestone blocks alternating with flushwork panels; 4 3-light traceried windows; south doorway with continuous arch. Clerestorey with 12 closely-set 2-light windows to north and south, 4-centred arched heads with red brick, black knapped flint and flushwork panels between. Chancel with small priest's door on north and a projecting turret for the rood stairs; 2 C19 restored 3-light windows in Perpendicular style on the south side, and a 5-light C19 east window, the traceried head filled with fragments of medieval stained glass. Interior has matching nave arcades in 7 bays: fluted octagonal piers, the tops with a small cusped blank ogee arch to each face; double-chamfered arches. Very fine low- pitched nave roof in which tie-beams alternate with hammers, making 14 short bays altogether, the shafts for the hammerbeams and braces going down between the clerestorey windows. The tie- and hammerbeams all have moulding and 2 rows of brattishing, and in the spandrels of the supporting braces suns in splendour alternate with stars. Moulded ridge-piece and embattled purlins; large flowers at the intersections of the main timbers. The matching cornice also has double brattishing and arched spandrels below decorated with stars. Tenons at the ends of the hammers show where angels or figures should have been. The main timbers have traces of colour and patterning. Ornate octagonal font in Decorated style, strikingly similar to that at St Nicholas, Rattlesden, Suffolk. Panelled base; each face of the bowl, which is supported on crowned heads, has a flamboyant ogee arch with droplets; crenellated top; no cover. Fine rood-screen, said to date from 1441, complete to the coving and cresting: tall onelight divisions with flamboyant ogee arches; dado has traceried panels painted alternately in red and dark green. Main interior fittings date from the restoration of 1878: benches; stone pulpit; reredos below east window; chancel roof. A few old poppy-head bench ends remain in the chancel and south aisle. Repaired trefoil-headed piscina in south-east corner of chancel and another in the south aisle. A considerable amount of medieval stained and painted glass in the tracery and lights of the east window. Wall tablets to members of the Hunt family on north and south chancel walls. At east end of south aisle a medieval sepulchral slab and a few incised encaustic tiles with faces, similar to those at All Saints, Icklingham, Suffolk. Medieval iron-bound parish chest. Arms of George III over south door. Hanging above the nave arcade, a 'Virgin crant' on which garlands were hung in memory of Mary Boyce, d.1685, aged 20. North and south aisle roofs each in 14 bays: ogee-moulded main beams, very large plain joists, brattished cornice.

Listing NGR: TL9997471111

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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.