ST ANDREW'S CHURCH

ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, HAWK'S LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279218
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: ST ANDREW'S CHURCH
Statutory Address:: ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, HAWK'S LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279218
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: ST ANDREW'S CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, HAWK'S 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:: ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, HAWK'S LANE

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Brockley
National Grid Reference:: TL 82736 55553

Details

TL 85 NW BROCKLEY HAWK'S LANE

4/39 St. Andrew's Church (Formerly listed as Church 14.7.55 of St.Andrew)

II*

Church, mediaeval, altered 1866. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, north vestry. Flint and septaria rubble, partially rendered; limestone dressings. Slated roofs with parapet gables. Some early C14 features including, in the chancel:- 2 2-light south windows with curvilinear tracery, 3-light east window, double piscina with separate arches. In the south nave wall an ogee-headed tomb-canopy, probably of Alexander de Walsham (died c.1338), of Brockley Hall. Later C14 alterations include:- 2-light windows and south doorways to nave and chancel; nave entrance door, oak battened and boarded with iron knocker and escutcheon; chancel arch with pilasters having moulded capital and base and pair of flanking image pedestals; steps up to rood-loft formed with dropped window cill having inset piscina bowl. Tower added to west and late C15; crenellated parapets, 2-light belfry openings, diagonal buttresses, frieze at plinth level, with flushwork tracery and the name Ricardus Copping on the south side, 3-light west window with tracery, tall tower arch with pilasters. South porch added C15; timber-framed with arched doorway and diamond mullioned side-lights, flint and ashlar plinth (repaired in red brick), gabled slated roof with simple crown posts. Extensive alterations of 1866, including: removal of narrow tower between nave and chancel (evidence visible in south wall); replacement of chancel roof by a 7-canted roof, boarded with ribs and bosses; removal of nave roof and replacement with scissor-braced coupled rafter roof; construction of new vestry against north wall; oak poppy-head pews and choir-stalls, some reusing C16 poppy-heads and benchends; altar reredos in 7 oak-framed panels with figure paintings; windows in the north wall inserted or, perhaps, unblocked and restored. For details and engravings of the church before alterations, see John Gage, History of Thingoe Hundred, 1838.

Listing NGR: TL8273655553

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Legacy System number:: 403642
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gage, J, History of Suffolk Thingoe Hundred, (1838)

Legal

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