Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1198266
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1198266
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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 MARGARET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Margaret, South Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 31410 83967
Details
SOUTH ELMHAM, ST. MARGARET TM 38 SW
4/65 Church of St. Margaret 1 .9.53
GV I
Parish Church. C12, C14 and C15. Nave, chancel, south porch, west tower, north vestry. Rubble flint with traces of old render; slate roofs; freestone dressings, but no stone quoins to the corners of the nave. The early C14 tower has a mixture of black knapped flint and freestone to its lower stages and diagonal buttresses on the west with freestone details; it is capped by a low pitched hipped roof and has no parapet. On the south, a square quatrefoiled window, and on the north a similar window containing an 8-spoked wheel. The porch has an upper room accessible from the newel stair in the stair turret on the south side of the tower. The front wall of the porch, which is in knapped flint and red brick, has 2 single-light windows with a cinquefoil niche between them. Inside is a fine set of stocks. Simple Norman south doorway with one order of shafts, roll moulding, volute capitals, and small vertical zigzags in the abaci. To the south of the doorway, the remains of a stoup with trefoil head. A Norman slit window in the south wall of the nave, the remaining windows are Perpendicular, 2-light. Interior of nave with C19 pulpit and benches with poppyheads. Beside the pulpit, the rood stairs with a blocked upper door. Octagonal C15 font: 4 lions against the stem, and on the bowl the signs of the 4 Evangelists alternating with 4 demi-figures of angels; Jacobean cover, with console brackets. Nave roof in 6 bays, arch- braced; moulding to braces and purlins; embattled and brattished cornice; reinstated shields with carved emblems to the feet of the braces. A small section of the lower part of the chancel arch screen stands in the chancel: the 4 panels are painted with figures, now very faint. Chancel with 3-light east window. In the north wall, a small Easter Sepulchre with panelled and traceried base and an ogee gable to the recess above, crocketed and pinnacled. Early C18 marble mural monuments in Classical style. Boarded and stained roof. In the vestry, a window with C14 glass with tabernacle and border work.
Listing NGR: TM3141083967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282325
- 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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