Blyth Turrets is a Grade I listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1966. A Medieval Church.
Blyth Turrets
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-balcony-hawthorn
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1966
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blyth Turrets is a former parish church that is currently being converted into a dwelling. The building features a medieval nave and chancel, with a tower dating from the mid-16th century. The structure includes a nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, and north vestry, constructed from flint and stone rubble with stone dressings, while the tower is made of red brick with diaperwork in dark headers and has slated roofs.
The tower is notable for its three-stage diagonal buttresses on the west face, a west doorway with a depressed four-centre arch and hoodmould, a two-light west window, two-light openings in the bell chamber, and a crenellated parapet. Both the nave and chancel have 12th-century cores, although the east end of the chancel was rebuilt in the 14th to 15th centuries. The south side of the nave features a renewed three-light window from the 15th century and a 14th-century two-light window that was altered in the 16th century. There is also a late 12th-century south nave doorway with a single engaged shaft on the jambs and a chevron-moulded semi-circular arch.
A late 18th to early 19th-century brick porch incorporates older materials. The north nave has two three-light windows: one made of early 16th-century brick and another in Perpendicular style that was renewed in the 19th century. Inside, there is a blocked 12th-century doorway and a large blocked 12th-century window. The south chancel contains a late 16th-century two-light window in brick, a restored priest's doorway in 14th-century style, and a partly restored two-light window from the 15th century. The east window is a three-light window from the 19th century in Decorated style. Both the nave and chancel boast impressive 15th-century arched-braced collar roofs with pierced quatrefoils at the cornices and moulded, crenellated wallplates; the nave roof has eight bays, while the chancel roof has three bays. The church furnishings have been removed.
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