Church Of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Church.

Church Of All Saints

WRENN ID
patient-timber-myrtle
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Country
England
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a parish church that dates back to the medieval period, with restorations completed in 1875 and 1924. It features a nave, chancel, west tower, and a north porch. The building is constructed of flint rubble, with the nave and chancel plastered, while the tower is made of knapped flint mixed with stone and has stone dressings. The roof is slated, with 20th-century slates on the south side.

The 15th-century tower is square and has three-stage diagonal buttresses on the west side, topped with a crenellated parapet. The plinth, buttresses, and parapet are decorated with flushwork. The west face includes a doorway with lion label stops above the arch and a two-light window beneath a full-width quatrefoil flushwork frieze. There are also two-light openings in the bell chamber.

The nave, which dates from the 12th century, has well-preserved original north and south doorways. The north doorway features two orders of colonettes, with the outer order displaying spiral decoration, carved cushion capitals, and three orders to the arch—two adorned with chevrons and the central one roll-moulded. The south doorway is simpler, with one order of colonettes, chevron ornament, and a roll-moulded arch. Each side of the nave has two original 15th-century two-light square-headed windows.

The church has a notable 15th-century porch made of knapped flint, featuring flushwork panels on the facade and a parapet with stone tracery at the front and flushwork on the sides. The entrance arch and hoodmould are decorated with fleurons, and there are carved stone shields in the spandrels, along with an empty statue niche above the arch. The late 13th-century chancel contains two two-light windows with Y-tracery and one lancet window, as well as a three-light east window with intersecting tracery and a priest's doorway to the south.

Inside, there is no chancel arch, and the roofs have been ceiled over, likely in the 19th century. The south sanctuary features a late 13th-century angle piscina with a trefoil arch and a drop-sill sedilia. There is a plain octagonal font on a stem with eight colonnettes, probably from the 13th century, and in the northwest nave, there is a niche for a banner stave locker. The church also has a fine 16th-century holy table and a set of 19th-century poppyhead benches.

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