Description

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832/27/481
19-DEC-61

WICKHAMBROOK
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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A mainly Cl4 random} flint and stone church with stone dressings. The Cl4 tower and north and south aisles have castellated parapets and the tower has flint and stone chequer work in the parapet and angle buttresses. The aisles have good C14 Decorated windows with intersecting tracery. The north doorway is closed with 2 orders of shafts and dog tooth ornamentation in the hood mould. A chapel north of the chancel, now a vestry, has a C13 piscina with a dog tooth ornamented arch. The north porch is Cl4. The nave has a Cl6-Cl7 hammer-beam roof. The church contains good brasses of Thomas Burrough (d.1597), set in a recess enclosed by wood bars set diagonally, a fine alabaster tomb with recumbent figure of Sir Thomas Higham by Nicholas Stone and a square font cut to an octagon in the Cl5.

Listing NGR: TL7534654444

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526758

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)