CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1352404
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, 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:
- Norton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 96223 66320
Details
TL 96 NE NORTON CHURCH LANE
2/98 Church of St Andrew
15.11.54
GV II*
Parish church, medieval. Nave, chancel, north and south aisles, west tower,
south porch, north vestry. Restorations of 1881 and 1897. Flint rubble with
dressings of freestone; chequerboard flushwork panels at parapets and plinth
of aisles and porch. Plaintiled nave and chancel roofs with parapet gables;
other roofs flat behind parapets: some good C14 and C15 grotesque gargoyles.
Early C14 features in chancel include a south doorway and two windows with
cusped Y-tracery, one with grotesque dripstones. Over the doorway is a
contemporary window whose wide inner splay may indicate a C12 origin. Late
C14 tower with Y-traceried belfry windows and another below at the west end,
but money bequeathed for its completion 1442. Mid C14 north and south nave
doorways, the latter with its original cross-battened plank door and the
former with a small stoup beside it. Porch and aisles remodelled in early
C15; the porch has a shafted doorway with image niche above and tall side
windows. 3-bay nave arcades of mid/late C14: the piers have trefoiled headed
arches carved beneath the octagonal capitals. A small piscina in the south
aisle. Good late C14 east window. Circa 1500 roof over chancel in 5 bays:
arch-braced collarbeam trusses, the beams moulded and embattled, and a deep
cornice with shallow mouldings; there is early paintwork at the end bay over
the sanctuary. The nave and aisle roofs were rebuilt in C19: the truss
adjacent to the chancel arch is carved with the date 1897. Vestry added in
early C16: casement-moulded doorway, original oak plank door, and brick-arched
fireplace. (The vestry was restored 1748 as carved on roof beam). Good C15
font with evangelists in sunk panels around the bowl, and,panelled stem with
various supporting creatures around the chamfered corners. Poppyhead benches
in both aisles; a set of 7 and another of 8; most have carved creatures seated
upon the buttresses. 3 sets of late C14 choirstalls: two of 3 seats and one
of 2; traditional pattern with delicately carved misericord figures. In the
nave is a monument of 1626, whose painted inscription is lost. The deep ogee-
headed crown has obelisks at the head and feet: here some painted decoration
is visible including the standing skeletal figure of time with hourglass and
sickle and the date 1626. Some medieval glass, especially at the heads of
south chancel and south aisle windows. A large C15/C16 marble slab with brass
sinking in the nave, another (smaller) with 3 later slabs in north aisle, and
5 slabs of various dates from C16 to early C19 in the chancel floor.
Listing NGR: TL9622366320
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281201
- 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.
End of official listing