All Saints' Church
ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD, IP29 5QH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1186968
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- All Saints' Church
- Statutory Address:
- ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD, IP29 5QH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1186968
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- All Saints' Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD, IP29 5QH
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:
- ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD, IP29 5QH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chevington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 78879 60122
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/09/2016
TL 76 SE
1/17
CHEVINGTON,
CHURCH ROAD,
All Saints' Church
(Formerly listed as: CHEVINGTON, CHURCH ROAD, Church of St.John the Baptist)
14.7.55
I
Church, mediaeval with C16-C18 alterations. Nave, chancel, west tower, south
porch. Nave has late C12 core; south doorway has 2 attached shafts at each
jamb with foliage capitals, tooth ornament bands behind shafts and with roll
moulding over arched head. Plain hood-moulded C12 north doorway; adjacent small
1-light window with broad splayed inner arch. Mid-C13 work includes lancets
and 2-light hood-moulded windows in nave and chancel; narrow chancel arch with
chamfered inner arch springing from stiff-leaf corbels, 2 flanking pointed
openings; simple south nave piscina. South nave porch c.1300, timber-framed
with moulded arched opening, tie-beams with billet and tooth-ornament carving,
and coupled-rafter plaintiled roof. Tower c.1500 (legacy 1494) with angle-
buttresses, 2-light belfry openings and 3-light west window; some flushwork at
the base. The tower parapets raised a full stage, with tall crocketed corner
finials, by Marquis of Bristol c.1800. Nave walling raised early C16, with red
brick crenellated parapets; cambered arch-braced tie-beam roof with traceried
spandrels, and ogee-moulded ridge and purlins, crenellated cornice (tie-beams
later intruded between wall-posts of each truss to prevent spreading, carved
with "C.P. 1638" "SP 1638" and "1590 Thomas Frost"). 2 early C16 2-light
windows in south nave wall. Chancel east window early C17, 5 arched lights in
plain square frame. Chancel roof early C17 with ovolo-moulded cambered tie-
beams, ridge and purlins. Octagonal limestone font, early C15 with sunk
quatrefoil tracery on bowl and pilasters on base. Fine C15 pews; traceried
ends with poppyhead musicians playing various instruments. Fragments of
mediaeval glass in south windows. Panel with arms of George I, "GR 1726".
Listing NGR: TL7887960122
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 363092
- 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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