Church Of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. A Medieval Church.

Church Of St Mary

WRENN ID
spare-landing-equinox
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1955
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building with origins dating back to the 12th century. The nave and chancel were constructed in the 14th and 15th centuries, and the tower was added in the 15th century. A porch and vestry were added in the 19th century, and extensive restoration took place between 1863 and 1864, which included refacing the nave and chancel walls. The structure features a tower made of flint rubble and septaria with ashlar dressings and later brick battlements. The rest of the church is primarily composed of knapped and roughly-coursed flint with ashlar dressings. The porch has a glazed timber superstructure resting on a flint and ashlar base, and the roof is covered with plain tiles and has ashlar coping.

The church consists of a west tower, a three-bay nave, and a two-bay chancel, all under a continuous roof. There is a south porch and a north vestry. The tower is three stages high and features diagonal flushwork buttresses. The west window has three lights with 19th-century Perpendicular tracery, while the second floor is recessed on a band and includes a single trefoil-headed light. The belfry opening has two lights under a Tudor arch, and the tower is topped with battlements and crocketed pinnacles.

Inside the nave, there are two-light windows with 19th-century tracery. The porch contains a Norman doorway with one order of colonettes featuring crude head capitals that have been painted over, and the arch has two orders with chevron moulding forming lozenges. There is a blocked north door with worn shafts and the remains of one capital. The chancel has a restored lancet window to the west, a 19th-century priest's door, and a two-light window with 19th-century tracery. The east window has three lights with geometrical tracery, and the vestry includes a 19th-century window with a reused hood mould and foliate stops. The interior features a tall tower arch, a trefoil-arched piscina on engaged shafts, and a 19th-century hammer-beam roof along with fittings.

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