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All Saints Church, Newton Green 
All Saints Church, Newton Green, from the southwestLocation in Suffolk
All Saints Church, Newton GreenCoordinates: 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, Newton Green, is a partly redundant Anglican church in the village of Newton Green, Suffolk, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a 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 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Bedford.
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History
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
Exterior
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
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
- List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in the East of England
References
- ^ a b c d e "Church of All Saints, Newton", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1283418, retrieved 19 May 2011
- ^ a b c All Saints' Church, Newton Green, Suffolk, Churches Conservation Trust, http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/All-Saints-Church-Newton-Green-Suffolk/, retrieved 25 March 2011
- ^ a b c d e f Baxter, Ron (2008), All Saints, Newton, Suffolk, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/crsbi/search/county/site/ed-sf-newto.html, retrieved 22 February 2011
- ^ a b Knott, Simon (2009), All Saints, Newton, Suffolk Churches, http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/newton.html, retrieved 22 February 2011
External links
Categories:- Grade II* listed buildings in Suffolk
- Grade II* listed churches
- Church of England churches in Suffolk
- Norman architecture
- English Gothic architecture
- Churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust
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