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
- long-truss-rye
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Church Road, Ellough
- OS grid reference
- TM 442 866
- Coordinates
- 52.42333, 1.59152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a redundant parish church located on Ellough Church Road. It dates back to the medieval period and was restored between 1880 and 1882 by the architect William Butterfield. The church features a nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, and a north organ chamber. It is constructed of flint rubble with stone dressings, while the nave is rendered. The roofs are felted and have a very shallow pitch.
The west tower, dating from the 14th century, is square and unbuttressed, with two-light Y-traceried openings in the bell chamber and a 15th-century flat parapet made of knapped flint. The nave consists of two bays and has 15th-century two-light windows, along with a blocked north doorway. The south nave doorway and porch were added in the 19th century. The chancel, which is also two bays and dates from the 14th century, was partly re-faced in the late 19th century and features two-light windows as well as a three-light east window from the same period.
Inside, the church has a 15th-century eight-bay nave roof with cambered tie beams, arched wind-bracing, and a crenellated wallplate. It is noted that the roof was originally more steeply pitched but was raised in the late 19th century, with wall posts supported on stone corbels carved as heads. The late 19th-century panelled chancel ceiling and stone reredos were also designed by Butterfield. There is a 14th-century piscina with a cusped and crocketted ogee arch, and adjacent to it is a drop-sill sedilia. The stairs to the rood loft remain intact. The church features a 15th-century octagonal font, with the bowl's faces carved alternately with shields and flowers; the stem is later, but the sub-base is original. In the sanctuary, there are two brasses with female effigies, and in the chancel, there is a mid-18th-century ledger slab. Some furnishings, including the pulpit, choir stalls, and organ, have been removed.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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