Church of St Peter
Church of St Peter, Church Road, Little Thurlow, Haverhill, CB9 7JQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1227189
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter, Church Road, Little Thurlow, Haverhill, CB9 7JQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1227189
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter, Church Road, Little Thurlow, Haverhill, CB9 7JQ
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 Peter, Church Road, Little Thurlow, Haverhill, CB9 7JQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Thurlow
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67967 51188
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/10/2018
TL6751
832/22/350
LITTLE THURLOW
CHURCH ROAD
Church of St Peter
(Formerly listed as Church of St Peter, LITTLE THURLOW)
19.12.61
II*
An early C14 church with C15 square tower of random stone and flint, with angle buttresses and a castellated parapet with knapped flint and stone chequer work.
The clerestory windows on the south side are C17, circular. The nave is of flint, stuccoed, with a slate roof. There is a C12 square font with angle-shafts and panels carved with floral motifs. The three-sided altar rail is of the mid-late C17. The traceried dado of a C15 screen remains, with some original colouring. A Jacobean family pew has fret cut upper panels. On the north side of the chancel is the Soame's Chapel, Jacobean with semi-circular arches having arabesque carving on tile soffits and pendants to the roof. It contains the fine marble and alabaster tomb of Sir Stephen Soame (d1619) who built the chapel and was Lord Mayor of London in 1593. It bears the recumbent figures of Sir Stephen and his wife and the kneeling figures of their sons and daughters. There is early C17 stained glass in the oval window of the chapel. There is the brass of a Knight and Lady circa 1520.
Listing NGR: TL6796751188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424828
- 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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