Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. A Medieval Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- gentle-joist-honey
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Church Street, Stradbroke
- OS grid reference
- TM 231 739
- Coordinates
- 52.31854, 1.27337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating from the medieval period, with significant restoration work undertaken in 1871-2 and 1879. It comprises a nave, chancel, north and south aisles (each with a chancel chapel), a west tower, north and south porches, and a north vestry. The exterior is constructed of flint rubble, largely faced in knapped flint, with stone dressings. The nave and chancel have slated roofs, while the aisle roofs are leaded.
The church features a fine, four-stage tower of the 15th century, topped with a crenellated parapet. It displays flushwork on the buttresses and parapet, along with stone panelling to the plinth. A polygonal stair turret rises above the parapet on the south side. The west doorway is moulded and enriched with crowns and fleurons, with rose-carved spandrels. Above this is a tall, three-light window flanked by canopied image niches. Two-light belfry openings are also present. The nave has origins in the 14th century, incorporating a 15th-century clerestory and aisles. The windows are mostly renewed or significantly restored in a Perpendicular style. A range of ten two-light clerestory windows are arranged in four pairs with a single window at each end. The 15th-century porches have been much restored. The chancel, dating from the 14th century, was refaced in 1879. It has a restored two-light south window and a five-light east window dating from 1879, both featuring 14th-century internal hoodmoulds with carved stops; the east window also incorporates shafting.
Internally, the church has a five-bay aisle arcade of the 14th century. The chancel arch and most of the chapel arches were reformed in the 1870s. The 15th-century nave roof was repaired in 1871-2 and retains arch-braced embattled tie beams with 19th-century painted texts, arched-braced principal rafters, and many original fleuron bosses. The chancel and aisle roofs were replaced in the 1870s, and the south chapel roof was restored. A fine 15th-century canopied niche with a trellis vault is found in the north chancel wall. Drop-sill sedilia with trefoil-headed niches in the reveals are also present, alongside a 19th-century piscina. The north chapel has an original piscina and aumbry. The tower stair features a good original door enriched with fleurons. A 15th-century octagonal font has a bowl with panels carved alternately with angels bearing shields and with the signs of the Evangelists, and an inscribed plinth. Later 19th-century furnishings are also present. A wall monument to Elizabeth White (1840) is located in the chancel. At the base of the tower, a series of photographs document the church before, during, and after the restoration, including interior views.
Local climate
Church of All Saints sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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