All Saints Church, Newton Green
| All Saints Church, Newton Green | |
|---|---|
 All Saints Church, Newton Green, from the southwest | |
  All Saints Church, Newton Green Location in Suffolk | |
| 52°02′11″N 0°47′51″E / 52.0365°N 0.7974°E | |
| OS grid reference | TL 920 413 |
| Location | Newton Green, Suffolk |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | Churches Conservation Trust |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Part redundant, part active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II* |
| Designated | 23 March 1961 |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Norman, Gothic |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Flint with stone dressings and some brick |
| Clergy | |
| Rector | Revd Judith Sweetman |
All Saints Church is a partly redundant Anglican church in the village of Newton Green, Suffolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.[1] The chancel is still in use for worship, but the nave, porch and tower are redundant and vested in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] The church stands towards the north of the village, some two miles east of Sudbury.
History[edit]
Most of the church was rebuilt in the 14th century, replacing an earlier Norman church.[2] The south porch was added in the 15th century, and restored in 1975.[1] By the 1960s the church had fallen into disrepair, and it was divided at the chancel arch, the chancel continuing in use for worship.[3]
Architecture[edit]
Exterior[edit]
All Saints is constructed in flint with stone dressings, and some brick.[1] The porch is timber-framed. Its plan consists of a nave with a south porch, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower.[3] The tower has diagonal buttresses, and its battlemented parapet is constructed in brick.[1] The north doorway in the nave is Norman, dating from the 12th century, probably from the 1130s or 1140s. It is round-arched, has two orders, scalloped capitals, and arches decorated with chevrons. The doorway has been partly blocked, forming a window in the upper part. The south doorway dates from the 13th century. The east window in the chancel has a 14th-century five-light window.[3]
Interior[edit]
Inside the church, the chancel arch is blocked with glass in the upper part, and glazed doors in the lower part. On the south side of the nave is a tomb dating from about 1300 containing the effigy of a female.[3] On the north wall is a series of 14th-century wall paintings depicting scenes relating to the Incarnation.[2][3] In front of the paintings is a pre-Reformation pulpit in the shape of an hourglass.[4] In the chancel are a piscina and a sedilia, both dating from the 14th century, and the elaborate tomb of Margaret Boteler who died in 1410.[3] In the chancel windows are fragments of medieval stained glass.[4] The font is octagonal, and dates from the 15th century.[1]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Historic England, "Church of All Saints, Newton (1283418)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 27 June 2013
- ^ a b c All Saints' Church, Newton Green, Suffolk, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 9 December 2016
- ^ a b c d e f Baxter, Ron (2008), All Saints, Newton, Suffolk, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, archived from the original on 29 June 2011, retrieved 22 February 2011
- ^ a b Knott, Simon (2009), All Saints, Newton, Suffolk Churches, retrieved 22 February 2011