Church of St Gregory
CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1182641
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1182641
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, CHURCH LANE
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 GREGORY, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hemingstone
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 14466 53646
Details
HEMINGSTONE CHURCH LANE TM 15 SW 6/119 Church of St Gregory 9.12.55 - I
Parish church, medieval with main features of mid C14 and early C16. Nave, chancel, west tower, north porch and vestry. Mainly plastered rubble with freestone dressings. The south-west corner of the nave has prominent long- and-short quoining perhaps of Cll. Plaintiled roofs. Mid C14 north and south moulded doorways to nave The north door is probably of early C16. The tower doorway has a C14 iron-bound door. 3 mid C14 traceried windows, one retains good original glass in the tracery. Plain cusped piscina of C14/C15. Tower built or remodelled in early C16: flushed flintwork, embattled parapets, traceried belfry openings and large west window. Early c16 windows in side walls of nave and chancel, those on the north with much C18 crown glass. Restored C16 east window. North porch of c.1530 in red brick with diaper patterning in burnt headers; good moulded brick detailing to doorway, the image niche above, and the side windows. Roof of coupled rafters without collars, untied. Continuous roof of c.1500 over nave and chancel, of canted construction, without tiebeams; moulded cornice and rood-beam. The southern half of the early C16 roodscreen survives up to dado level. Late C14 octagonal limestone font: the stem is plain, but the bowl intricately carved with crocketed gables and tracery. A tomb-chest in the chancel to William Cantrel (d.1585); pilasters at the base, and an inscription framed by Corinthian columns and entablature, and above are two obelisks and a shell. A small room to north of chancel was added c.1600, now a vestry but of uncertain original purpose: red brick with fragments of original plaster, plain chamfered openings, side purlin roof. 6 painted texts around the walls; another over the north door records repairs in 1773. Two large marble slabs on the outer south wall face: Francis and William Thorne, 1704 and 1718. Two late C18 marble slabs in the chancel floor. Two coats of arms in the vestry (one of William and Mary).
Listing NGR: TM1446653646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279738
- 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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