Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197944
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197944
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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 LAWRENCE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Lawrence, Ilketshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 36775 86377
Details
ILKETSHALL ST. LAWRENCE TM 38 NE 2/20 Church of St. Lawrence 1.9.53 - II* Parish church. C13 and C15. Nave, chancel, south porch, west tower. Rubble flint to main walls, with remains of old render; freestone dressings; C20 concrete plaintiles to nave roof, black glazed pantiles to chancel. There are no windows on the north side. 2-light windows on south: in nave, pointed- arched and cusped, in chancel with curvilinear tracery. The east end is faced in C19 red brick and the 3-light east window has cusped reticulated tracery. A small early C19 vestry with a 2-light Gothick window leads off the north doorway in the nave; there is also a blocked doorway near the altar on the north side. Small tower in 3 stages, in a mixture of unknapped and knapped flint, stone, and septaria; diagonal buttresses faced with plain flushwork panels. The parapet is in red brick with flushwork panels. Flint and stone south porch with black glazed pantiles and pointed-arched doorway. Interior of church mildly Victorianised: benches, pulpit and lectern all C19. Nave roof plastered, with only a moulded cornice exposed; chancel roof, C19, with affinities to Leiston. The floors are paved with small old tiles in a pattern of black, cream and red. There is no chancel arch. C15 font: small base, octagonal shaft, and octagonal bowl supported by mutilated winged angel heads; the faces of the bowl decorated with blank shields and a surround of fleurons. In the chancel, a large pointed-arched niche in the north wall and 4 benches with old poppyheads. Set into the floor of the tower, a plain brass to Richard Beetes, d.1613.
Listing NGR: TM3677586377
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282237
- 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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