Church of St Margaret and All Saints
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET AND ALL SAINTS, SAXON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207045
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret and All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET AND ALL SAINTS, SAXON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207045
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret and All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET AND ALL SAINTS, SAXON 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 ST MARGARET AND ALL SAINTS, SAXON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lowestoft
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 53860 90496
Details
LOWESTOFT
TM59SW SAXON ROAD 914-1/3/76 (North side) 13/12/49 Church of St Margaret and All Saints
II*
Parish church. Unusual history. South-west tower of C13 origins, re-built C15 with the remainder of the building. Until 1748 the building was 2 churches, St Margaret's occupying the north nave, All Saints the south. From 1411-22 both were unified under one rector, Robert Graunt, who demolished the dividing wall and constructed the arcade and made the principal medieval alterations. After 1422 the churches were re-divided until 1748. Restored 1929-38, burnt by incendiary bombs 1941, re-built 1946-50. Flint with ashlar dressings and some brick. Thatched roofs. 2 naves and continuous chancels, south-west tower and south porch. Stepped buttresses to the north and south flanks, the NORTH NAVE has diagonal corner buttresses. Arched north nave door. Four 3-light Perpendicular windows under square heads, very restored. Early C14 three-light reticulated west window with quatrefoils in the reticulation units, also much restored. Early C14 three-light reticulated east window with quatrefoils and trefoils, the lights filled with flint 1949. C20 vestry abuts the west gable. The SOUTH NAVE has a 2-stage unbuttressed west tower. Two lancets to the west side. String course to the set-off under the C15 belfry stage: 2-light reticulated belfry windows north and south; arched louvred windows east and west. Crenellated parapet. Gabled S porch with diagonal buttresses. Eroded roll and wave-moulded jambs. Wall sundial in gable-head. One trefoil light in east and west sides. Four 2- and 3-light Perpendicular south windows under straight heads, all C20 restorations or replacements. Low priests' door to chancel. 3-light reticulated chancel east window of C20 character. INTERIOR. 7-bay arcade divided into 5 to naves, 2 to chancel. Octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. Scissor-braced roofs of 1946-50. Rood screen extends entire width. 1411-22, canopy demolished 1767, all but 17 cusped dado panels destroyed 1941, re-built without canopy 1946-50. Octagonal late C14 font on a plinth. The stem has lions crouching against it, the bowl the symbols of the Evangelists and 2 white harts of Richard II. Set into the north wall is a brass to John Bowf and wife, 1417, with inscription. Figures in civil costume, predella with 2 sons and 9 daughters. In the south chancel a brass to Richard Folcard, 1451, half-figure, inscription, academical dress. On the west wall a Royal Arms of Charles II, painted. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Suffolk: Harmondsworth: 1961-1975: P.388).
Listing NGR: TM5386090496
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391358
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 388
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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