CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE

CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1278672
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1278672
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, 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 MAGDALENE, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Little Whelnetham
National Grid Reference:: TL 88865 60045

Details

TL 86 SE LT.WELNETHAM CHURCH LANE

2/112 Church of St.Mary Magdalene

14.7.55

I

Church, mediaeval. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch. Flint rubble with some surviving areas of early render, lacing courses of plaintile to tower, limestone quoins and dressings. Plaintiled roofs. The earlier chancel re- fenestrated mid C14; 2-light hood-moulded windows in sidewalls and 3-light east window with flowing tracery. Simple nave piscina possibly Norman with chamfered round arch; small arched recess, perhaps a C13 aumbry; C13 leper squint in south wall. C13 tower, with mid C14 2-light west window, 2- light belfry openings with boarded shutters, the parapets rebuilt early C16 in crenellated red brickwork. The nave much altered early C16, with large 4-light hood-moulded windows, north (blocked) and south doorways, and tower-arch. Fine nave hammer-beam roof, with each hammer-beam figure-carved (restored 1842), and principal rafters arch-braced up to collar; 2 intermediate trusses above each window, arched directly to collar, with a head carved in the wall-post either side of each brace; lion-head carved timber corbels to each truss. Early C16 porch of unusually thick red bricks; crow-stepped gable, hood-moulded arched doorway and niche above, 2-light arched side windows, coupled rafter roof. Chancel roof rebuilt early C16; principal rafters with arch-bracing to collars, butt purlins and crenellated cornice; of similar workmanship to nave roof. Restored C15 screen, complete up to middle rail only, with pilasters and tracery between. A set of 20 fine C15 poppy-head pews, some restored or replaced to a high standard, probably in 1882; traditional poppy-heads, traceried ends and carved buttresses. C19 traceried poppy-head choir stalls. C15 octagonal limestone font, with traceried stem and sunk quatrefoils to bowl. In the south nave wall 2 C14 image pedestals, and a shaft (probably reset), having a C12 cushion capital. 4 black marble slabs in the chancel floor to:- Edward Agas (rector), d.1680, and his wife Rachel, d.1677; their son Anthony Agas (rector), d.1721; Wm Bauley, d.1705, and his wife Susan, d.1718; Katherin Briton, d.1720, her son Thomas, d.1741, and daughter Elizabeth, d.1734.

Listing NGR: TL8886560045

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Legacy System number:: 404989
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.