Description

TG 02 NE
7/98

THURNING
REEPHAM ROAD (west)
Church of St. Andrew

6/3/59

II*

Parish church, C14 tower, nave and north aisle, later Perpendicular details inserted. Quaternary and Quarry flint with Lincolnshire Limestone dressings, slated roof. West tower, nave and north aisle, south porch, chancel in ruins.

Unbuttressed west tower with single west lancet with broken trefoil tracery, single rectangular opening to belfry chamber on east, north and west faces, south with two-light Decorated window with clock below. Flush work battlemented parapet. Nave south three two-light Decorated windows with tracery heads, south porch Perpendicular with hood moulded arch recut, angle buttresses, blocked two-light Perpendicular window on east. East window of three-lights, reticulated tracery and former chancel south priest's door both re-erected in nave east wall. North chancel wall surviving. North aisle with Perpendicular straight headed three-light east window, two straight headed two-light north windows, two light Y-tracery west window of c.1300, blocked north door of c.1300.

Interior: four bay north arcade of Perpendicular octagonal piers, double hollow chamfered arches. Furnishings by James Burroughs for Corpus Christi College Cambridge chapel of 1742 re-erected here after 1824 by the Rev. Henry William Blake, MA and former Fellow. Three decker pulpit with sounding board, three-sided communion rails with gates, moulded plinth and shelf, turned balusters, sanctuary panelling. North aisle filled with box pews, nave with open benches, boxes at rear. Nave east wall two good mid C18 wall monuments, to north with rococo details signed E. Holl, 1766. Nave south wall monument signed W. Tyler 1750. Six-part Gothick tower door c.1820. Early C19 nave and aisle roofs. Late C19 stone font with wooden cover.

Listing NGR: TG0803829446

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556123

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)