Church of St Petronilla
CHURCH OF ST PETRONILLA, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230460
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Petronilla
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETRONILLA, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230460
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Petronilla
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETRONILLA, 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 ST PETRONILLA, 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:
- Whepstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 83278 58238
Details
TL 85 NW WHEPSTEAD CHURCH ROAD
4/129 CHURCH OF ST PETRONILLA
(Formerly listed as Church of
14.7.55 St. Petronella)
II*
Church; mediaeval, restored 1869. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch,
north vestry. Flint rubble walls, mainly rendered, with limestone dressings;
porch of knapped flintwork. Plaintiled roofs except for slated vestry, and
nave with large riven slates; parapet gables. Square chancel arch piers late
C11 or C12, with roll-moulded jambs; the arch with chevron mouldings built
1869, but some voussoirs from the original arch were found during the work and
reused for a C19 doorway in the tower staircase. Late C13 2-light windows with
quatrefoil heads in the nave. Mid C14 alterations include: Y-traceried 2-
light windows in nave and chancel and 3-light east window (nave windows on both
sides have piscina bowls cut into the dropped cill, and on the south side
integral steps up to the rood loft); chancel piscina; moulded south doorways
to nave and chancel, both with good C19 battened and boarded doors, the nave
door traceried. The gabled south porch almost rebuilt early C20, but retaining
lower part of C14 flint rubble walling with limestone quoins; the arched
doorway renewed except for lower jambs; an original stoup in the south wall.
C15 tower with moulded west doorway, and 3-light traceried window above
flanked by cinquefoiled niches. The upper level much altered, possibly in 1582
(date scratched on S.E. Buttress) with 2-light belfry openings. C19 alterations
include reconstruction of nave roof of hammerbeam type, and addition of gabled
vestry against the C14 north doorway; the C19 pulpit incorporates 2 early C17
arcaded panels with marquetry inlay. Some fragments of assorted mediaeval
stained glass reset in roundels in south chancel window. Wall tablets in
chancel to: Johannes Ryley (d.1673) and General Sir Francis Hammond (d.1850).
In the chancel, 2 tomb-slabs of Purbeck marble, possibly of C14 priests, and 6
C18 floorslabs of black marble.
Listing NGR: TL8327858238
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405379
- 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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