Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1230821
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1230821
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, 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:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Glemham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 34655 58712
Details
TM 35 NW LT.GLEMHAM CHURCH ROAD (north side)
3/72 Church of St. Andrew 7.12.66
GV I
Parish church. Nave, chancel, north transept, west tower and south porch. Mostly random flint with stone dressings, knapped flint to tower; chancel of red brick with dark headers; plaintiled roofs with crest tiles to nave and chancel. C15 west tower: 4 stages, crenellated parapet, diagonal 3-stage buttresses; stone string courses at first and third stages, 2 further string courses (one decorated) below the parapet, between which is a stone band; flushwork decoration to plinth and parapet; 2-light bell chamber openings on 4 faces, west doorway with fleurons to arch, hoodmould with carved shields in spandrels, plank door; above is a figure of Christ within a cinquefoil-headed niche. South wall of nave with mostly renewed C15 windows; C15 porch, considerably restored mid C19, with cinquefoil-headed glazed niche containing the figure of St. Andrew above doorway. South nave doorway with fleurons to arch, plank door; above arch is C19 painted inscription: 'This is the Gate of the Lord'. North nave with C12 doorway: one order of colonettes, arch with one order of roll moulding and crude (unfinished?) beakheads; 2 3-light C15 windows, mostly original. Chancel rebuilt C18 and restored mid C19 with windows in C13 style; north transept built to receive the North monument, c.1830, splayed ends and flat roof. Nave and chancel with good C19 braced collar roofs. C13 octagonal font, bowl of Purbeck marble with 2 shallow pointed arch panels to each face, central stem with 8 surrounding columns, octagonal base. C19 stone pulpit, C19 benches; on north nave wall a large probably C18 painting with the Commandments, Creed and Lord's Prayer; fragment of Trinity carving built into south-east chancel wall. North transept in classical style: four fluted Greek Doric columns to corners, entablature, coffered elliptical vault with centre light; divided from chancel by ornate wrought iron screen; within apsidal end is monument of Dudley North (d.1829), made in 1833 in Rome by John Gibson: seated white marble figure. West transept wall with 3 C16 brasses to members of Glemham fami1y; east wall with tablets to Nicholas Herbert (d.1775) (with classical surround), Barbara, Countess of Aldborough (d.1785) and Ann, Relict of the Hon. Nicholas Herbert (d.1789). East and south chancel wall with 4 good tablets to North family, all with elaborate classical surrounds: Catherine North (d,1715), Dudley North (d.1729), Dudley North (d.1764), Sir Dudley North (d.1691). Some C19 stained glass in nave and chancel, one C20 window in south west of nave. Graded I for medieval work and interior monuments.
Listing NGR: TM3465558712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405852
- 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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