Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1352203
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1352203
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHURCH LANE
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 LAWRENCE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brundish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 27147 69546
Details
BRUNDISH CHURCH LANE TM 26 NE
6/7 Church of St Lawrence - 29.7.55 GV I
Parish church. Medieval. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch. Flint rubble with stone dressings. Slated roofs. C12 tower: square, unbuttressed, with various blocked window openings. To the east an original 2-light belfry opening divided by a shaft with a capital. The other 3 belfry openings, moulded west doorway and crenellated parapet are late C14 additions. Tower arch to nave now blocked. 4-bay nave of late C14 date with 2-light and 3- light windows in Perpendicular style. Moulded north and south doorways with orignal doors. C15 porch: flushwork-panelled facade; moulded entrance arch with rose-carved spandrels above which is an empty niche with crocketted ogee arch and flanking buttress shafts. Remains of stoup in porch. Late C14 2-bay chancel. Priest's doorway enriched with fleurons, partly renewed C19. 5- -light east window renewed C20. Interior. Nave roof ceiled over. C19 chancel roof. Chancel arch rests on corbels carved as human heads. Good C14 angle piscina: cusped ogee arch with crocketting and buttress shafts. Adjacent a drop-sill sedilia and 2 medieval aumbries. The east splays of the easternmost nave windows have cusped image niches; that to the north is complete and retains some original colouring. In the north nave wall is a recess with moulded arch, probably for a founder's tomb. Simple octagonal font, uncarved, probably of C14 date. At the west end of the nave, 11 C15 poppyhead bench- ends, 2 with remains of arm-rests; the backs of all the benches are C18. Remainder of nave seating comprises C18 box pews, built around further C15 poppyhead benches. C15 pulpit with traceried panels; early C17 carved back and tester. At east end of chancel, C18 painted copies of the Lord's Prayer, Commandments and Creed within C19 panels. Effigy brasses include: Sir Edmund de Brundish (c.1380), under recess in north nave wall; John and Alice Colby (1540, 1560), in nave; John Colby (1559) and Thomas Glemham (1571), both in sanctuary. Several C17-C18 ledger slabs. Arms of George III over tower arch.
Listing NGR: TM2714769546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280127
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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