Church of St Catherine
CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, EARL SOHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182764
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, EARL SOHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182764
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, EARL SOHAM ROAD
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 CATHERINE, EARL SOHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pettaugh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 16787 59617
Details
PETTAUGH EARL SOHAM ROAD TM 15 NE 4/130 Church of St Catherine 9.12.55
- II*
Parish church; medieval with restoration of 1861. Nave, chancel, west tower. Organ chamfer and vestry to the north and south porch, are additions possibly of 1861. Random flint rubble, the chancel is plastered. Freestone dressings. Plaintiled roofs with C19 crested ridge finials; a parapet gable at the east end. A mutilated Norman pillar piscina in the sanctuary; fragments of C13 piscinas were discovered in C20 alterations. Mid C14 tower; west window with grotesque corbels; early C16 rebuilding at upper level with flushwork panelled parapets and a belfry window with lionhead gargoyle on the east side. Chamfered C14 north and south doorways. Dagger-traceried east window with grotesque corbels. North and south nave windows of C14, restored C19. Two early C16 windows to south of chancel. Chancel arch with moulded capitals possibly C17. Good C15 octagonal limestone font with angels and lions around bowl and supporting lions below. Four brasses to C16 members of the Fastolfe family. Four bench-ends with formal poppyheads in the chancel, one dated 1615.
Listing NGR: TM1678759617
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279749
- 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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