Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, LOWESTOFT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182968
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, LOWESTOFT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182968
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, LOWESTOFT 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 ALL SAINTS, LOWESTOFT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Worlingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 44510 89836
Details
In the entry for the following :
TM 48 NW WORLINGHAM LOWESTOFT ROAD 5/62 Church of all Saints - - I
The grade shall be downgraded to grade II*
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WORLINGHAM LOWESTOFT ROAD TM 48 NW 5/62 Church of All Saints - - I Parish church. Medieval, considerably restored 1873-4. Nave, chancel, south chapel, west tower, north porch. Flint rubble with stone dressings; plaintiled roof. C15 knapped flint tower with 4-stage diagonal buttresses to the west and a crenellated parapet enriched with flushwork; the tracery to the belfry openings is missing. 3-bay nave with 2-light windows in Perpendicular style, mostly renewed C19; C14 nave doorway. C15 porch with 2-light square headed side windows. In the south nave wall is a semi-circular headed niche containing a much-weathered coat of arms, and below a tomb chest to John Felton (1703). 2-bay chancel with C19 windows in Perpendicular style. To the south of the chancel is a C15 3-bay chapel. Interior. 2-bay chapel arcade; to the west of the chancel arch is a further bay, perhaps later, with carved heads against the capitals. The east end of the chapel is used as a vestry, the doorway having carved label stops. The chancel arch and all the roofs were renewed mid C19. Good arched-braced nave roof of 4 bays with intermediate trusses between; each main truss carries a crown post braced one-way to the collar purlin; there are also side purlins and arched wind-bracing. Boarded wagon roof to chancel. Restored piscina in chancel and another simpler one in the chapel. C15 carved octagonal front on a 2-stepped base, the upper step with quarterfoil tracery to the riser. A screen below the tower arch incorporates 2 traceried panels from the dado of the former rood screen. The furnishings are largely mid and late C19, but 6 C15 poppyhead bench ends remain in the nave. On the north west nave wall is a Cl7 painted wooden panel commemorating 2 members of the Duke family. In the chapel is a good marble wall monument by Chantrey to 2 members of the Sparrow family who died in 1809 and 1818. 2 early C16 effigy braces to Nicholas Wrenne and his wife have been remounted on the north chancel wall.
Listing NGR: TM4451089836
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282213
- 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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