ALL SAINTS' CHURCH

ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD, IP29 5QH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1186968
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: ALL SAINTS' CHURCH
Statutory Address:: ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD, IP29 5QH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1186968
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: ALL SAINTS' CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD, IP29 5QH

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD, IP29 5QH

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Chevington
National Grid Reference:: TL 78879 60122

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/09/2016

TL 76 SE 1/17

CHEVINGTON, CHURCH ROAD, All Saints' Church

(Formerly listed as: CHEVINGTON, CHURCH ROAD, Church of St.John the Baptist)

14.7.55

I

Church, mediaeval with C16-C18 alterations. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch. Nave has late C12 core; south doorway has 2 attached shafts at each jamb with foliage capitals, tooth ornament bands behind shafts and with roll moulding over arched head. Plain hood-moulded C12 north doorway; adjacent small 1-light window with broad splayed inner arch. Mid-C13 work includes lancets and 2-light hood-moulded windows in nave and chancel; narrow chancel arch with chamfered inner arch springing from stiff-leaf corbels, 2 flanking pointed openings; simple south nave piscina. South nave porch c.1300, timber-framed with moulded arched opening, tie-beams with billet and tooth-ornament carving, and coupled-rafter plaintiled roof. Tower c.1500 (legacy 1494) with angle- buttresses, 2-light belfry openings and 3-light west window; some flushwork at the base. The tower parapets raised a full stage, with tall crocketed corner finials, by Marquis of Bristol c.1800. Nave walling raised early C16, with red brick crenellated parapets; cambered arch-braced tie-beam roof with traceried spandrels, and ogee-moulded ridge and purlins, crenellated cornice (tie-beams later intruded between wall-posts of each truss to prevent spreading, carved with "C.P. 1638" "SP 1638" and "1590 Thomas Frost"). 2 early C16 2-light windows in south nave wall. Chancel east window early C17, 5 arched lights in plain square frame. Chancel roof early C17 with ovolo-moulded cambered tie- beams, ridge and purlins. Octagonal limestone font, early C15 with sunk quatrefoil tracery on bowl and pilasters on base. Fine C15 pews; traceried ends with poppyhead musicians playing various instruments. Fragments of mediaeval glass in south windows. Panel with arms of George I, "GR 1726".

Listing NGR: TL7887960122

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 363092
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.