Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1192820
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1192820
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, THE 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 ANDREW, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cavenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 76360 69682
Details
TL 76 NE CAVENHAM THE STREET
7/12 Church of St. Andrew 7/5/54 - II*
Church, mediaeval, restored 1870. Nave, chancel, west tower and south porch. Flint rubble, with areas of plaster-work; limestone dressings. Plaintiled roofs (the tower roof is flat behind crenellated parapets). Parapet gables; the kneeler stones at 2 south corners of nave have figure-carving, and on the north dog-tooth, all of C13. Early C13 walling to chancel, with 2 lancets and a 3rd blocked; hood-moulded priests doorway. Various alterations throughout C14. In south chancel wall is an early C14 low-side window, containing border glass and the inscription: "PRIEZ POR ADAM LA VICAR". 2 similar windows in nave. Small unbuttressed tower, perhaps of early C14; foundations and gable- weathering survive from a cell at the west end, perhaps a porch with room above; it was demolished by C18. The tower has lion-head gargoyles and restored 2-light belfry openings. A plain C14 west doorway with sub-mediaeval oak-mullioned window above. A mid C14 chancel window has dropped-cill sedila and a linked piscina with crocketed pediment and corner shaft. Opposite is a little reliquary recess. Several C14 windows, some with good but decaying clunch tracery. Simple late C14 north and south doorways, and south porch with pilastered doorway. Late C14 chancel arch, with much-altered screen; painted boarded lower panels; the upper tracery renewed C16, and the strapwork central drop-tracery early C17. Octagonal limestone font, perhaps late C14, with circular bowl. Plain C17 octagonal pulpit. A C15 figure wall-painting on the north wall. In the chancel a wall-tablet to William Webb, d. 1754. In the nave, a floor brass to John Symunt,d. 1588. Flanking the east window of 1870 are 2 panels of c.1800 with painted Ten Commandments.
Listing NGR: TL7636069682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275753
- 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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