Deanery Tower

Deanery Tower, Church Walk

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1194031
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: Deanery Tower
Statutory Address:: Deanery Tower, Church Walk

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1194031
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: Deanery Tower
Statutory Address 1:: Deanery Tower, Church Walk

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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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:: Deanery Tower, Church Walk

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County:: Suffolk
District:: Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:: Hadleigh
National Grid Reference:: TM 02545 42442

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 September 2023 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

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CHURCH WALK Deanery Tower

26.4.50.

GV I

Built 1495 by Archdeacon Pykenham a former rector. Very fine example of late C15 brickwork. It was originally the gatehouse to the Archdeacon's house (demolished early C19). It is of red brick with black diapering, 43 ft high, 31 ft wide, flanked at the four corners by panelled and embattled turrets. The turrets on the east side are hexagonal and rise from the ground level, the turrets on the west side spring from a little way below the corbel table. The carved and moulded brick chimneys in early C16 style were added in 1830. All the external brick panelling is decorated with trefoil-cusped heads.

Over the entrance gateway are two storeys, the first with an oriel window on west side of two lights and surmounted by a brick cornice with trefoil-cusped work. The room has been used as a library and was panelled in 1730 by Dean Wilkins. There is a curious painting on plaster above the fireplace of the Church with the river and hills beyond, executed by a local artist Benjamin Coleman 1629. There are also two paintings said to be by Canaletto who was a guest of Dean Tanner between 1749 and 1751. A small vaulted oratory with secret chamber is in the south east turret. NMR photos.

All the listed buildings in Church Walk form a group.

Listing NGR: TM0254542442

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Legacy System number:: 277634
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.