CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1352611
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1352611
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH HILL

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 ANDREW, CHURCH HILL

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Westhall
National Grid Reference:: TM 42325 80434

Details

TM 48 SW WESTHALL CHURCH HILL

3/42 Church of St. Andrew 1-9-53 - I

Parish church. C12 and C14. Rubble flint and freestone; thatched roof to nave, plaintiles to aisle and chancel, which is slightly higher than the nave. Nave, chancel, south aisle, north porch and south-west tower. 2-light Perpendicular windows to south aisle and north side of nave; 5-light east window with reticulated tracery, and a variant of reticulation, with a circle with ogee octofoil above, to the north and south of chancel. Norman south doorway to aisle: one order of colonettes, block or cushion capitals, a scalloped decoration and an outer billet moulding around the jambs and arch. C14 priest's door on south side of chancel with ogee arch. The C14 north porch is faced with flushwork and has a 2-bay open timber roof. The north doorway has a continuous moulding under a hood-mould on heads. Tower with flushwork panelling on the lower stages of the diagonal buttresses and on the battlemented top. This is said to have been raised in the C17. The building has a complex development, with the south aisle having been the nave of the original C12 Norman church, to which an apsidal chancel was once attached. The west front of this church is now visible within the base of the tower, which was added in the early C14. The C12 west portal, lavishly decorated, has 4 orders of colonettes variously ornamented with billet, stylised flowers and an outer incomplete ring of beasts. A small window above is set within an arch and flanked by 2 blank arches, all decorated with zigzag ornament, the window surrounded also by a chain of raised circular members. There are the remains of wall-paintings in red ochre on the south wall of the aisle, and a set of Royal Arms of George III. In the south-east corner, the damaged altar tomb of Nicholas Bohun, (d.1602), with a genealogical brass above. The aisle roof is in 9 bays; no collars, but the long arched braces tenoned into hanging posts carrying carved bosses; an embattled and floral cornice with an upper row of fleur-de-lys ornament. Mid C14 nave and chancel: nave arcade of 5 bays with octagonal piers and arches with double hollow-chamfer. Nave roof in 9 bays, with arched braces to cambered embattled collars, and a moulded and brattished cornice; painted headless figures remain to the base of some corbels. Panelled early C19 benches. Seven Sacrament font retaining original colouring in the panels; the 8th panel represents the Baptism of Christ. Bowl supported by angels; high double octagonal base. Jacobean pulpit with the door to the rood loft beside it. Carved and painted base to rood screen remains: the panels are traceried and each has full-length paintings of 2 saints, 16 in all; base with enriched quatrefoils. Beside the north door, a large wall-painting, apparently of a Madonna and Child under a canopy. In chancel, a piscina with ogee head and cinquefoil cusping; plain sedilia; some old poppyhead bench ends, and fragments of medieval glass in the north-east window. Simple braced rafter roof. The floors are paved throughout with old floor bricks.

Listing NGR: TM4232580434

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Legacy System number:: 282116
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.