Church of the Holy Innocents
CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376986
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Innocents
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376986
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Innocents
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS, CHURCH ROAD
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 THE HOLY INNOCENTS, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Barton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 88991 66042
Details
TL 86 NE GREAT BARTON CHURCH ROAD
1/5 Church of the Holy - Innocents 14.7.55 - I
Parish church. C13 and later; restored in 1850's. Nave, chancel, north and south aisles, south porch and west tower, in random flint with freestone dressings: the aisles and clerestory are faced in a mixture of black knapped flint and small freestone blocks, evenly set: stone facings to buttresses and crenellated stone parapets to aisles and nave; slate roofs. C15 porch with red brick and trefoil arcading to the base; crenellated gabled parapet; diagonal buttresses; rendered and lined south face with a large sundial over the entry; a gargoyle head on east and west, and 2-light windows. 8 perpendicular windows to clerestorey. The C14 south aisle has a 2-light east window with flowing tracery, and Perpendicular windows on the south; C15 north aisle with 4 gargoyle water-heads. C13 chancel: a simple priest's door on the south side with pointed arch and nook-shafts, and beside it an arched tomb recess with a heavy gable on corbels; north and south windows with plate tracery and a lozenge, quatrefoiled far back, and a 3-light east window with lancets and circles at head, also quatrefoiled far back; on the south-west a blocked low-side window. At the east end, unusual polygonal buttresses with stone pinnacles. Fine west tower in 4 stages divided by string-courses; a chequerwork base of stone and black knapped flint; diagonal buttresses on west. The walling has some small red bricks and stone blocks mixed with flint rubble. Stair turret with a conical roof projecting on the south side. A simple west doorway with continuous moulding; a 3-light window with panel tracery to each face of the top stage. An impressive parapet with flushwork decoration (cf. similarities with St. Mary's, Rougham): stepped and panelled crenellation; quatrefoil frieze. The interior of the nave has a simple, shallow-pitched single hammerbeam roof in 8 bays, corresponding to the bays of the clerestorey: folded-leaf decoration along the purlins and ridge-piece; the hammer posts supported by headless recumbent figures. Arcades in 4 bays: early C14 on south, with one octagonal and 2 circular piers; perpendicular on north. Fragments of medieval glass in the heads of all 3 windows in the north aisle. Benches with traceried ends and poppyheads, some C15, but many reproductions of 1856. Simple octagonal C13 font, supported on a central column surrounded by 4 outer columns; a tall C19 carved and traceried wooden cover in East Anglian style. Chancel with a simple plastered keel roof; remains of pinnacled C13 piscina and sedilia. The other fittings are C19. Various wall memorials to members of the Bunbury family.
Listing NGR: TL8899166042
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284426
- 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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