Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1182389
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1182389
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, 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 PETER AND ST PAUL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wangford with Henham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 46592 79119
Details
TM 47 NE WANGFORD HIGH STREET (south side)
7/52 Church of St. Peter and - St. Paul (formerly 27/11/54 listed as Church of St. Peter)
GV I
Parish church. Mid C15 nave, north aisle and north porch; restored 1864-70. Tower of 1864; chancel and south vestry of 1875, all by E.L. Blackburne in a modified Perpendicular style with French Gothic influence. Random flint rubble, stone dressings; pantiled roof to nave, plaintiled roofs to chancel and vestry, all with crest tiles. The tower is at the east end of the north aisle: square, with angle buttresses at the corners and a staircase turret at the south-east angle; various moulded stone string courses; large 2-light bell chamber openings, each with 3 blank quatrefoil panels at the base; crenellated parapet with panelled flushwork and crocketed pinnacles. 3-bay aisle with 3- light Perpendicular windows. Simple porch, slightly earlier than the aisle to which it is attached: there is a moulded entrance arch with an empty cusped niche above. C14 moulded arch to nave doorway. To the west the nave has flanking turrets capped by spirelets and a 4-light window; to the south are 3 3-light perpendicular windows and 3 flying buttresses. 2-bay chancel; 4-light east window below which is a flushwork frieze and inscription to Johannes Rous, Earl of Stradbroke, dated 1875. Both nave and chancel have flat parapets. Interior. 3-bay aisle arcade, the eastern bay formed in mid C19. Both the nave and aisle are unusually wide. 4-bay C15 nave roof: arched- braced embattled tie beams alternate with high collars; at the apex are large bosses, some in the form of human heads. 3-bay C15 aisle roof. Ornate 4-bay chancel roof with arched-bracing and angels at the foot of each wallpost. C15 octagonal font with a quatrefoil panel to each face of the bowl. Fine reading desk and pulpit with much elaborate inlaid work: these were orignally part of one C17 structure at Henham Hall. The chancel has good choirstalls and elaborately-carved stone reredos, piscina and sedilia, all of 1875. In the aisle are wall monuments to Sir John Rous (1652) and John Rous (1771); on the south nave wall are monuments to John, First Earl of Stradbroke (1827) by Behnes, and to John Rous (1730): a rococo cartouche against an obelisk, with 3 winged cherubs beneath. Several windows with late C19 stained glass.
Listing NGR: TM4659279119
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281917
- 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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