All Saints Church, Newton Green facts for kids
Quick facts for kids All Saints Church, Newton Green |
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All Saints Church, Newton Green, from the southwest
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| 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 |
All Saints Church is a historic church in the village of Newton Green, Suffolk, England. It is an Anglican church, which means it belongs to the Church of England.
Part of the church is still used for regular services. This part is called the chancel. The other parts, like the main area (the nave), the entrance (the porch), and the tower, are no longer used for worship. These parts are looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust, an organization that saves old churches.
The church is a very important building. It is listed as a Grade II* listed building. This means it is a special building that needs to be protected because of its history and architecture. You can find All Saints Church towards the north side of Newton Green, about two miles east of Sudbury.
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History of the Church
Most of All Saints Church was rebuilt in the 1300s. It replaced an even older church from the Norman period, which was around the 11th and 12th centuries.
The south porch, which is the covered entrance on the south side, was added in the 1400s. It was repaired in 1975 to keep it in good condition.
By the 1960s, the church building was starting to fall apart. To save it, the church was divided. The chancel part was kept separate and continued to be used for church services.
What the Church Looks Like
Outside the Church
All Saints Church is built mainly from flint stones. It also has stone details and some parts made of brick. The south porch is made of wood.
The church has a main hall (the nave), a south porch, a chancel with a small room on the north side (a vestry), and a tall tower at the west end. The tower has strong supports called buttresses at its corners. The top of the tower has a battlemented parapet, which looks like the top of a castle wall, and it's made of brick.
Look for the north doorway in the nave. It's very old, from the Norman period (around the 1130s or 1140s). It has a round arch and two layers of decoration. The stone carvings on top of the columns are shaped like scallops. The arches are decorated with zigzag patterns called chevrons. Part of this old doorway has been filled in to create a window at the top. The south doorway is from the 1200s. The large window at the east end of the chancel has five sections and was built in the 1300s.
Inside the Church
Inside, the arch that separates the nave from the chancel is now blocked. The upper part has glass, and the lower part has glass doors. This is where the church was divided in the 1960s.
On the south side of the nave, you can see a tomb from around 1300. It has a stone effigy (a statue) of a woman lying on top.
On the north wall, there are amazing wall paintings from the 1300s. These paintings show stories about the Incarnation, which is the Christian belief about Jesus being born as a human. In front of these paintings, there is a very old pulpit shaped like an hourglass. This pulpit was made before the English Reformation, a big change in the church in the 1500s.
In the chancel, you'll find a piscina (a stone basin for washing sacred vessels) and a sedilia (stone seats for the clergy), both from the 1300s. There's also a fancy tomb for Margaret Boteler, who passed away in 1410. The chancel windows still have small pieces of medieval stained glass. The font, where baptisms take place, is shaped like an octagon and dates from the 1400s.
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