Church of St Genevieve at Fornham Park
CHURCH OF ST GENEVIEVE AT FORNHAM PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376908
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Genevieve at Fornham Park
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GENEVIEVE AT FORNHAM PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376908
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Genevieve at Fornham Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GENEVIEVE AT FORNHAM PARK
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 GENEVIEVE AT FORNHAM PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fornham St. Genevieve
- National Grid Reference:
- TL8399168355
Details
TL86NW
410/1/21
14-JUL-55
FORNHAM ST GENEVIEVE
Church of St Genevieve at Fornham Park
GV
II*
Church tower. Only the ruinous west tower of the former parish church remains; the rest was accidentally burnt down on 24th June 1782. C14. Rubble flint, with freestone quoins; in 3 stages, unbuttressed, with a plain uncrenellated parapet. A 2- light window with cusped heads to lights on all faces of the top stage; a quatrefoil window on the middle stage of the west face, and a lancet on the first stage; a high tower arch on the east.
HISTORY. This tower was consciously retained after the fire to provide a romantic focal point in the landscape park laid out in Fornham Park in the late C18. Capability Brown, who died in 1783, visited Fornham in 1781 and again in 1782 after the fire, and produced schemes for the park and for rebuilding the church, but the extent of his contribution is not certain at present.
Part of a significant group including the surviving service buildings and walled gardens (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TL8399168355
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284085
- 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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