CHURCH OF ST MARY, WHITTON

CHURCH OF ST MARY, WHITTON, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237354
Date first listed:: 26-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, WHITTON
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, WHITTON, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237354
Date first listed:: 26-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, WHITTON
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, WHITTON, CHURCH LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, WHITTON, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Ipswich (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TM 14988 47696

Details

1. TM 14 NW off CHURCH LANE, WHITTON

9/444 Church of St. Mary, Whitton

II

2. Parish church. Late C13 origins, largely rebuilt 1852, enlarged 1862, to include south aisle and south west tower by F Barnes, 1880's. Flint with stone dressings, plaintile roofs, some with cresting. Nave chancel north and south aisles, south west tower, north chapel and vestry. South west tower, 3 stages with spire clasping pilasters with bell bases, in flint with stone dressings; flush band at 2nd stage, and over south doorway, dentilled cornice beneath spire. Circa 1300 doorway, reset, to south face; scrollmoulded arch and hood, shafts with undercut mouldings to caps, single light opening to west face; 2 similar openings to south and west faces of middle stage; 2-light oell openings in late C13 plate tracery style to upper stage. Stone splay-footed spire with a tall lucarne to each face, and surmounted by a foliate cross. Nave C19 west window, 3-lights of simple slender tracery. Parapeted west gable surmounted by encircled stone cross. South aisle 1862, using remains of Church of St. Botolph. 3 bays with diagonal buttress at each end and straight buttresses between bays; 3 paired lancets ; quatrefoil to east gable wall, parapeted gable surmounted by stone cross. North aisle, C19, west window of 2-light plate tracery, 4 bays defined by buttresses single lancet to each bay; 3 light plate tracery east window of 2 encircled trefoils beneath encircled cinquefoil ; gable with lugged stonecross, cresting to ridge. Chancel, 2 bays, diagonal buttresses at east end, straight buttress to south face. 2 2-light plate tracery windows, 3 light east window the main lights surmounted by 2 encircled quatrefoil with encircled trefoil in the apex. Elaborate stone cross to gable, crested ridge. Vestry and chapel to north. 3 cusped light to east face of flat-roofed vestry. West doorway to westernmost chapel/ vestry. Stack with paired polygonal shafts with recessed cusped panels. 3 lancet windows to north. Interior. 4 bay north arcade of polygonal piers, 3 bay south arcade of drum piers with polygonal responds, both arcades with double chamfered arches and moulded caps to the piers. Chancel arch, 2 chamfered orders on polygonal responds with moulded caps. Nave roof canted and boarded, possibly the original underneath. Chancel, largely C14 collar after roof with straight braces to the collars, ashlar pieces, richly moulded cornice to north, but covered to south. Niche to left and right of east window late C13 style (and possibly original) cusped heads on engaged shafts, beneath moulded hood. Remains of original piscina with cusped head. 3 bay C19 open arcade to north wall, polygonal shafts with cusped heads. Morris glass to north-eastern north aisle window. Circular font bowl with blank arcade on central drum and four outer shafts. Some fittings, said to come from Sudbury Church,including benches with halved poppy-head bench ends, above cowled figure heads.

Listing NGR: TM1498847696

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Legacy System number:: 428587
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.