All Saints' Church is a Grade I listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A Medieval Church.
All Saints' Church
- WRENN ID
- burning-casement-thistle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
All Saints' Church is a medieval church with alterations from the 16th to 18th centuries, located on Church Road in Chevington. The church features a nave, chancel, west tower, and a south porch. The nave has a late 12th-century core, with a south doorway that includes two attached shafts at each jamb topped with foliage capitals and decorative bands, along with a roll moulding over the arched head. The north doorway is plain with a hood mould, and there is a small adjacent one-light window with a broad splayed inner arch. Mid-13th-century elements include lancet windows and two-light hood-moulded windows in both the nave and chancel, as well as a narrow chancel arch with a chamfered inner arch supported by stiff-leaf corbels and flanked by two pointed openings. A simple piscina is located in the south nave.
The south nave porch, dating to around 1300, is timber-framed and features a moulded arched opening, tie-beams with carved billet and tooth ornament, and a plaintiled roof with coupled rafters. The tower, built around 1500 (with a legacy date of 1494), has angle buttresses, two-light belfry openings, and a three-light west window, with some flushwork at its base. The tower's parapets were raised by the Marquis of Bristol around 1800, adding tall crocketed corner finials.
The nave's walling was raised in the early 16th century, featuring red brick crenellated parapets. The roof has a cambered arch-braced tie-beam structure with traceried spandrels, ogee-moulded ridge and purlins, and a crenellated cornice. Later intrusions include tie-beams added between the wall-posts of each truss to prevent spreading, carved with the inscriptions "C.P. 1638," "SP 1638," and "1590 Thomas Frost." The south nave wall contains two early 16th-century two-light windows. The chancel's east window, from the early 17th century, has five arched lights in a plain square frame, while the chancel roof features early 17th-century ovolo-moulded cambered tie-beams, ridge, and purlins.
Inside, there is an octagonal limestone font from the early 15th century, decorated with sunk quatrefoil tracery on the bowl and pilasters on the base. The church also boasts fine 15th-century pews with traceried ends and poppyhead carvings of musicians playing various instruments. Fragments of medieval glass can be found in the south windows, and there is a panel displaying the arms of George I, dated "GR 1726."
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