Church of St Mary and St Peter
CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1199020
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1199020
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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 MARY AND ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelsale cum Carlton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 38790 65176
Details
TM 36 NE KELSALE-CUM-CARLTON CHURCH LANE
5/53 Church of St. 7.12.66 Mary & St.Peter (Previously listed under Kelsale) GV I
Parish church. Medieval, restored 1876-7 by Richard Norman Shaw; nave restored 1882-3 by E.S. Prior. Nave, chancel, south aisle, south west tower, south porch, north vestry. Random flint rubble with knapped flint face to chancel, chancel aisle and vestry, stone dressings; roofs slated except north chancel which has concrete pantiles. C14 tower: 4 stages with crenellated parapet and diagonal buttresses to the south face; 2-light west window, 2-light bell chamber openings with small pierced quatrefoils to the lights, panelled flushwork to parapet with corner gargoyles; clock face to south. Late C14/early C15 nave: large 5-light west window with a flushwork frieze below; north nave has 3 largely original 2-light and 3-light windows and a good C12 doorway with 2 orders of colonettes, 3 orders of decoration to the arch and a hood mould with billets. C14 nave aisle with one C14 window with reticulated tracery and 2 C15 square-headed windows. C15 chancel aisle with one C15 window and a C12 doorway re-set as a Priest's doorway, with one order of colonettes and 2 orders of chevron moulding to the arch. The chancel has a renewed 5-light east window in Perpendicular style and one 2-light window to the south. Good C15 porch with panelled flushwork to the lower part of the facade and to the buttresses and the crenellated parapet; doorway with fleurons and blank shields to both faces of the arch, spandrels with carved shields, canopied niche above doorway filled with later figure; above the niche at the apex of the parapet are the cross keys of St. Peter; the south door is the original. 4-bay arcade to nave aisle, 2-bay arcade to chancel aisle. Scissor-braced coupled rafter nave roof of 6 bays, C19 wagon roof to chancel. C15 octagonal font, carved faces to bowl and stem; early C17 carved pulpit with bracketed book board; wrought iron rood screen (1890); trefoil-headed piscina in south wall of nave aisle; 2 hatchments; Royal Arms of Victoria above nave north door. Chancel aisle with monument to Thomas Russell (d.1730), a marble sarcophagus with trophies and a coat of arms above. South west nave with wall monument to Samuel Clouting (d.1852), a three-quarter life size figure in a niche. Some good C19 stained glass. Graded I for surviving medieval fabric.
Listing NGR: TM3879065176
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 285648
- 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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