Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, STEEPLE END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267069
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, STEEPLE END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267069
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, STEEPLE END
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 MARY THE VIRGIN, STEEPLE END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Halesworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 38602 77364
Details
HALESWORTH
641/1/84 STEEPLE END
21-OCT-49 CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
II*
The present building dates from the C14 and C15 in the main, and consists
of nave, chancel, north and south aisles and additional north and south aisles
built within the last hundred years. There are also 3 chapels, on the south,
north east and north transept. The vestry was built in 1410. Suckling states
that the main building"probably owes its erection to the Argentein family."
The square tower dates from C15, being completed about 1420. There is a
marble tablet to the memory of Sir Henry Bedingfield, who died in 1687 (see
Gothic House) and to Charles D`Urban who died in 1769, infant brother of
Sir Benjamin D'Urban, also a native of Halesworth and Governor of the Cape
of Good Hope, after whom Durban, Natal, was named.
Listing NGR: TM3860077360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419786
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Suckling, , The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, (1846)
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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