All Saints Church

ALL SAINTS CHURCH, SUDBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1228768
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:
All Saints Church
Statutory Address:
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, SUDBURY ROAD
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Date:
2002-08-14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1228768
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:
All Saints Church
Statutory Address 1:
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, SUDBURY ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, SUDBURY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield
National Grid Reference:
TL 89223 57309

Details

TL 85 NE BRADFIELD COMBUST SUDBURY ROAD

5/6 All Saints Church
(Formerly listed as Church
14.7.55 of All Saints)

GV II*


Church, mediaeval, restored 1869. Nave, chancel, south aisle, north vestry,
south porch. Flint rubble with freestone dressings; C18 repairs (date stone
I.1721.H) with flint rubble and bands of red brick; alterations of 1869 with
rounded flints, tile-stitching and brick rubble. Plaintiled roofs. North nave
doorway has semi-circular inner arch, possibly Norman. South aisle added
c.1300; 2-light hood-moulded south windows, hood-moulded south doorway, hood-
moulded double piscina with adjacent dropped window cill seat, lancet west
window and diagonal pedimented buttresses. Triple nave arcade, c.1300, has
double chamfered arches on octagonal piers, with moulded capitals and bases.
Plain chamfered C13 or C14 doorways in north nave and north and south chancel
walls. Piscina in chancel late C14, heavily restored c.19. Nave roof rebuilt
c.1500, with principal rafters, arch-braced collars and arch-braced tie-beams,
moulded cornice, purlins and ridge. 3-light east aisle window inserted early
c.16. Open gabled timber-framed south porch added 1861. Alterations c.1869
include: reconstruction of east chancel wall, with 3-light window in mid-c.14
style; west nave wall with elaborate limestone bell-cote on parapet-gable;
parapet-gabled vestry; scissor-braced coupled rafter chancel roof; king-post
and tie-beam aisle roof. C15 wall-paintings on north nave wall above doorway,
with large figures of St. Christopher and of St. George and the Dragon. C12
limestone font with circular shaft and chamfered square bowl with scalloped
soffit, some C15 sunk tracery carved on one face. The C19 organ seat is
converted from a section of traceried C15 oak screen. Stained glass of c.1850
in most windows; the south chancel window reuses some c.15 glass. A wall
tablet in chancel to Arthur Young of Bradfield Hall (d.1759) with apron, crown
and flanking scrolls; 5 simple white marble wall tablets in chancel and vestry
to members of his family, d.1785-1851.


Listing NGR: TL8922357309

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
403228
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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