Description

CHURCH ROAD 1. 5377 (North-East Side) Little Waldingfield Church of St Lawrence TL 9245 22/346 23.3.61. I GV

2. A C15 flint and stone church. The nave, aisles and chancel are faced in cement. The west tower is of 4 stages with diagonal buttresses and an embattled parapet, stepped up at the corners with the headless figures of priests is instead of pinnacles. The nave and aisles have embattled parapets and perpendicular windows, and at the east end of the nave there are 2 octagonal rood staircase turrets with crocketted spirelets. The south porch is of alternate courses of flint and brick and has an embattled parapet, crowstepped on front. The nave has unusual decorated arches and piers with battlemented capitals. There is a good octagonal Jacobean pulpit carved with the evangelists and monks in Benedictine habit. There are C16 brasses, one early C16 brass is to a man and wife, with 13 children The Cl5 octagonal font is carved with the emblems of the 4 Evangelists and monks in Benedictine habit. Graded for its architectural and historical value.

Listing NGR: TL9241745158

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)