Weight: 1120 lbs Diameter: 39.13" Bell 1 of 3
Founded by Brasyers of Norwich (generic)
Dove Bell ID: 4524 Tower ID: 13111 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: quarter Cracked: No
Melton: St Andrew
Diocese of St.Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Church, 633491
http://www.standrewsmelton.org.ukOverview
Grid reference: TM 283 506
Following the issue of an Instrument on 18th June 1868, the parish church at Melton became a nineteenth-century church built near the centre of the village on the Old Turnpike Road, and this old church was been used as a mortuary chapel for the churchyard which surrounds it. It was accordingly reduced in size at about that time, by the demolition of the chancel and the eastern part of the nave. The remaining room, attached to the west tower, was finished with an apse at the east end.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
West tower, single-cell nave with east apse.
Footprint of Church buildings: 522 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
The tower is fourteenth-century; the nave was curtailed in the nineteenth-century, presumably when the new church was built in 1868.
Exterior Description
The tower is of three stages, without plinths on the north and south but having a plinth decorated with plain arcading in flushwork on the west face. At the western corners are diagonal buttresses decorated with simple flushwork which rise through one off-set to terminate at the stringcourse which marks the ground stage from the middle stage. The upper part of the tower, incorporating the two upper stages, thus has no buttresses and no dividing stringcourse, a feature which makes it somewhat heavy in appearance. The lowest stage is blind to north and south, and has a doorway and window in the west wall. The doorway, which forms the only entrance to the church has a two-centred head with two orders of mouldings, one a hollow moulding with square fleurons and the other a simple wavy moulding. The middle stage of the tower has small ogee- headed lights to north, west and south, with small cusps making a trofoil head in each. The belfry openings have had central mullions, but these are now missing on all four faces, and have been so for many years.
The rectangular part of the nave is lit by two windows in the north wall and two in the south. All are evenly divided by stout buttresses with single off-sets which die at the eaves. The north windows are of differing design, one a Perpendicular window with a flattened four-centred arch and two cinquefoiled lights with panel tracery, the other slightly earlier with a two-centred head and flowing tracery. The south-west window has Perpendicular panel tracery above two cinquefoiled lights and the south-east window is composed of two trefoiled lights with a spherical triangle in the tracery, again a slightly earlier form than its western counterpart. The apse is pierced by a single lancet on each side ef the altar, with trefoiled heads and a triangle above. The eastern point of the apse, which is now covered with rendering, was formerly concealed by a small annex in the same materials as the rest of the nave, under a tiled pent roof.
Interior
Interior Description
The interior is all one room , with the tower space unseparated by responds. The only structural division is the tower arch, high up on attached shafts with moulded capitals. The floor is paved with nineteenth-century red and back quarries laid alternately, interspersed with a few ledger slabs along the north and south walls. The roof, constructed of oak which has mellowed to a silvery-grey, is of four bays of moderate pitch, the tie- beams placed quite high and strengthened by arch braces between them and the principals just as the principals in turn have arch braces between them and the wall posts. The wall plates are moulded and the spaces between the timbers are plastered. The apse is roofed with a simple nineteenth-century contruction of rafters rising to the centre point, the areas between being left unplastered. The original wall-plates have been reused, giving the appearance of continuity. The windows stand within plain unmoulded or chamfered reveals.
Fixtures and fittings
Brass
c.1430
Brass to a civilian (feet missing), his wife (in a veil head-dress) and their son (a priest in academic robes), c.1430. The triple canopy is much mutilated and the inscription lost.
Pulpit
The pulpit is of oak, five sides of a hexagon carved with ornamental open arcading.
Altar
The communion table, of oak, was carved by amateurs and shows a Celtic cross in the centre and lilies to the left and right.
Reredos
The reredos is a painted triptych in a thin oak frame, representing Christ enthroned in Majesty flanked by trumpet-blowing angels and flaming candles.
Bells
Weight: 672 lbs Diameter: 32.63" Bell 2 of 3
Founded by Brasyers of Norwich (generic)
Dove Bell ID: 31100 Tower ID: 13111 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: quarter Cracked: No
Weight: 896 lbs Diameter: 36.43" Bell 3 of 3
Founded by Brasyers of Norwich (generic)
Dove Bell ID: 31101 Tower ID: 13111 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: half Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: TM 283 506
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
Further information
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