St Nicholas's Church
ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1229767
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas's Church
- Statutory Address:
- ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1229767
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas's Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH, CHURCH 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.
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:
- ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH, CHURCH 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 87731 56346
Details
TL 85 NE; 5/85
STANNINGFIELD,
CHURCH ROAD
St. Nicholas's Church
(Formerly listed as Church of St. Nicholas)
14.07.55
I
Church; mediaeval, restored 1881. Nave, chancel, west tower and south porch.
Flint rubble with limestone dressings. Plaintiled roofs with parapet gables;
the tower roof slated. The nave has C12 core: coursed flint walling with slit-
windows on north and south side; the north doorway (now blocked) with engaged
shafts and weathered crude crocket capitals, semi-circular head with chevron
moulding enriched with flowers on the soffit. The chancel rebuilt c.1300; 2-
light windows in north and south walls and 3-light east window with smoke vent
above, all having very original geometric tracery; blocked south doorway; a low
squint in the south wall, of quatrefoil form within a square; simple arched
piscina. The south nave doorway rebuilt early C14; Two chamfered orders with
flower ornament, hoodmould with ball-flowers and one surviving head-corbel; in
the wall inside the doorway a cusped holy water stoup. Two mid C14 Y-traceried
windows in the nave, one combined with a simple piscina. The chancel arch
rebuilt late C14, with pilasters having moulded capital and base; contemporary
wooden screen having central ogee-arched opening and four lights on each side,
with trefoiled heads on one side and quatrefoiled on the other. C15 tower with
stone-roofed stair-turrent on the south side; large transomed 3-light west
window with angel-corbels having shields; the bell-chamber stage demolished
c.1880 and slated pyramid roof constructed. C15 font, octagonal, limestone
with tracery on the stem; on the bowl the arms of Rokewood, alternating with
panels of tracery. A fine but decayed C15 Doom, painted in black line with
some red background, filling the wall above the chancel arch. During the
restoration of 1881, nave and chancel 7-canted roofs clad with matchboarding
and probably rebuilt. The south porch also rebuilt c.1880, in timber with
cusped bargeboards; the arched door drums are reused from the previous early
C14 porch. In the chancel, the limestone dresser-tomb of Thomas Rookwood,
d.1522; a frieze of fleurons with panels containing quatrefoils and the arms of
Rookwood; elliptical arched canopy and flanking pilasters with angel finials.
Two black marble floor-slabs: to Thomas Rookwood, d.1726; to John and Elizabeth
Gage, d. 1728 and 1759.
Listing NGR: TL8773156346
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404617
- 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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