Church Of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1954. A Restored c.1890 Church.
Church Of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- last-soffit-gilt
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Restored c.1890
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church that dates back to the medieval period and was restored around 1890. It features a nave, chancel, south aisle, west tower, and south porch. The building is constructed of flint rubble, with plastered walls except for the tower, which has stone dressings and plaintiled roofs on the nave and chancel. The round tower, which may date from the 12th century or earlier, has later lancet windows and single-light bell-chamber openings on each side, topped with a crenellated parapet. The south aisle, likely from the 15th century, has three bays and renewed 2-light windows. The porch extends from the aisle and features a quadripartite vault, with a 4-centre entrance arch that has a 18th-century sundial above it. The nave door is probably original. On the north side, the nave has three 2-light windows in the Perpendicular style, while the chancel has two bays with windows in the same style; some of the northern windows are partly original, with the rest renewed in the 19th century. There is a simple priest's doorway on the south side.
Inside, the church has a 3-bay aisle arcade and a largely original lean-to aisle roof. There is no chancel arch. The chancel contains 13th-century work, including a large east window with shafts and dogtooth-type ornamentation in the arch, as well as a piscina with a similarly ornamented arch and part of another arch likely over the sedilia. The aisle features a cinquefoil-headed piscina. The church also has a 15th-century carved octagonal font with a shaft supported by eight engaged columns, along with a 15th-century font cover that has been reduced from its original size. The chancel includes five 15th-century poppyhead benches and two fine traceried poppyhead bench ends that have been incorporated into a reading desk. There are wall monuments in the chancel dedicated to Sir William Glover (1660), William Glover (1726), and Thomas Pretyman, rector (1756), as well as several notable 18th-century ledger slabs in the chancel floor.
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