Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1283638
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1283638
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, 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 MARY, 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:
- Market Weston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 99038 78105
Details
TL 97 NE MARKET WESTON CHURCH ROAD
1/55 Church of St. Mary 14.7.55 - II*
Parish Church. C14; restored 1846-7 by Cottingham, and again in 1888-9. Nave, chancel, south porch and west tower: mainly in rubble flint with plain freestone dressings; high C19 bases of black knapped flint to walls of nave and porch; nave, much restored, faced in kidney flints. Plaintiled roofs with high, plain parapets. Plain stone-faced buttresses to nave; diagonal buttresses to-east end of nave and chancel. High, 2-light windows to nave with flowing tracery: the north-east window is blocked, apart from the head; the north-west window has fragments of medieval glass in the head. 2-light C19 windows to chancel, with a form of cusped Y-tracery; 3-light east window with flowing tracery, and C19 stained glass in the head. All the windows in the church have diamond-leaded panes and some crown glass. C15 south porch: open timber roof with ovolo-moulded main beam; south face with rectangular flushwork panels of black knapped flint; a canopied niche above the doorway, and a trefoil-headed canopied niche to each side. The south door has reused iron fittings, including C17 hinges, and a canopied niche above with a reinstated figure of the Virgin and Child. Tower in 5 stages, with 2 intermediate string-courses and a plain parapet of black knapped flint. Stair turret on the south side, with a conical, stone-tiled roof. A 2-light window with curvilinear tracery to each face of the top stage. The line of a higher, earlier roof can be seen on the east face. Victorianised interior to nave and chancel, all fittings dating from one or other of the C19 restorations. A very plain double hammerbeam roof to nave, the upper hammerbeams supporting arched braces which meet in a central pendant below the collar. Simple pierced and dentilled cornice. Some ovolo-moulding to main timbers. The roof, said to be C19, could well be C17, and the 6-bay single-hammerbeam roof to the nave, in similar style, could be of the same date, reused. Hanoverian arms, painted and framed, on the north wall of nave.
Listing NGR: TL9903878105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284408
- 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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