Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286247
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET
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- 2004-07-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/11849/25
- Rights:
- © Mr T. P. C. Bramer. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286247
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET
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 STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Raydon
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0493138617
Details
RAYDON
THE STREET
TM 03 NW
3/27
22.2.55
(West Side)
Church of St Mary
GV
II*
Church. Late C13 - early C14, restored 1883. Flint with ashlar dressings, south
side rendered. Timber porch. Plain tile roofs. 3-bay nave with low bell house
to west, south porch and north vestry. Slightly lower chancel. Square bell house
with louvres and pyramidal roof with ball finial. Nave: diagonal off-set
buttresses to west end. South side: probable late C19 gabled porch contains
original south door, continuously moulded under pointed arch with stoup to right
and surmounted by a niche. Off-set buttress to east of porch. Window
to west restored, 2-light with ogee-cusped Y-tracery. Centre window has 2 cusped
lights with cusped spherical triangle in head and window to east has 2 cusped ogee
lights with cusped vesica in head. Hoodmould with head stops to all windows. North
side: C19 gabled vestry, windows similar to south side. Chancel, south side:
central pointed priests door has shafts with moulded capitals. Off-set buttresses
with cusped gables. Window to west a single cusped light surmounted by trefoil
under hoodmould with panel of blind tracery below which may once have been open.
Pair of 2-light windows with geometrical tracery under hoodmoulds. North side:
two similar windows with geometrical tracery and V-shaped buttresses (Cautley p1.8).
Diagonal buttresses to east end with fine crocketed pinnacle finials. 4-light east
window replaced 1883. Interior: nave piscina with cusped pointed arch. Brackets
of former rood beam flank chancel arch and stairs survive to north. Tomb recess
with cusped heavily-moulded arch with head stops of type used as Easter sepulchre.
Fine piscina with open geometrical tracery. Wall tablet to John Mayor (d1663)in
marble with broken segmental pedimented aedicule.
H Munro Cautley, Suffolk Churches 5th ed 1982, p340 pl.8.
Listing NGR: TM0493138617
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Munro Cautley, H, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, (1937), 340
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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