Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1966. A Medieval Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- third-paling-burdock
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Old Maids Lane, Brandeston
- OS grid reference
- TM 247 603
- Coordinates
- 52.19513, 1.28767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church that dates back to the medieval period and was restored between 1862 and 1863. It features a nave, chancel, west tower, and north porch. The building is constructed from random flint rubble, with the nave and chancel plastered, while the tower and porch are made of knapped flint, with stone dressings and plaintiled roofs. The late 14th-century tower includes four-stage diagonal buttresses and a crenellated parapet, with panelled flushwork on the plinth, buttresses, and parapet. The west face of the tower was remodelled in the late 15th century, showcasing a well-crafted doorway with a moulded arch that has two orders of carving, a hoodmould with carved spandrels, and an original door featuring a traceried head. There is also a three-light window with empty trefoil-headed niches on either side and a canopied niche above, as well as two-light openings for the bell chamber.
The late 14th-century nave has three bays and retains two original two-light windows on each side, with an additional 19th-century three-light window on the south side. The porch was added in 1861, replacing the south porch. The original north and south doors of the nave remain intact. The early 14th-century chancel features a south window with three grouped lancets and one two-light traceried window, both largely original, while the north side has a renewed twin lancet window. The mid-19th-century east window has intersecting tracery. Inside, the nave has a mid-19th-century arch-braced roof with eight bays, and the chancel has a mid-19th-century hammerbeam roof.
Notable interior features include a 13th-century octagonal font with a Purbeck marble bowl, an early 17th-century pulpit, and eight 15th-century nave benches with traceried poppyhead ends and damaged armrests, along with four additional 15th-century poppyhead benches in the chancel. There is a piscina under an ogee arch in the southeast nave and altar rails dated 1711. The north sanctuary contains a significant wall monument to John Revett (died 1671) and his wife Alice, featuring a tablet with flanking columns, a scrolled pediment with putti, and garlands at the foot. Several ledger slabs commemorate the Stebbing family in the nave. The church is graded I for its well-preserved medieval work.
Local climate
Church of All Saints sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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