Weight: 896 lbs Diameter: 35" Bell 1 of 5
Founded by John Aleyn
Dove Bell ID: 542 Tower ID: 12722 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Bedingham: St Andrew
Overview
Grid reference: TM 285 933
A fine largely C13 round towered church located in a beautifully quiet location. Well worth a visit, especially to see the medieval graffiti.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Church open regularly Grade I listed building Visitor parking nearby Wheelchair accessible Local shop(s) or amenities nearby Stained Glass
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Footprint of Church buildings: 412 m²
Exterior Description
C12 tower base, remainder mainly late C13/early C14 with C15 additions and fenestration. Flint with limestone dressings. Shallow-pitched slate roofs. West tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, chancel, south transeptal chapel. Round west tower with C15 2-light west window with four-centred arched head and drip; small rectangular light with iron bars above. C15 octagonal bell stage with flushwork; 2-light louvred bell openings with tracery infilled at cardinal points, pattern repeated in traceried flush- work panels on remaining four faces. Castellated parapet above coved string course with heads and flower decoration. Nave clerestorey of six bays; 2- light C15 windows under brick arches. C15 south porch with engaged shafts and roll-moulding to arch much repaired; gable parapet on moulded corbels with head corbel at apex. South aisle has single light west window with hood mould on headstops; two C15 2-light south windows with shallow arches and stilted hoodmoulds, staged buttresses dividing bays. 3-light reticulated window in gable of south chapel; buttresses to gable, the south-east buttress diagonally-set. East wall of chapel has 3-light window with intersecting tracery. C15 chancel clerestorey with 3-light windows, 4 bays, the two western windows with raised cills and the westernmost window now obscured by the later pitched roof over the chapel. Stepped cill band. Fine priest's door in south wall of chancel, late C12 with pointed arch, shafts and colonnettes with decorated capitals and roll, keel and dogtooth arch mouldings. 2-light chancel south window with trefoil head. Corner pilasters to east gable; 4-light east window with intersecting tracery. Upper part of north chancel wall rendered; two C15 2-light clerestorey windows. East window of north aisle 3 lights with Y-tracery under a segmental head. North aisle has three 2-light windows with staged buttresses dividing bays. Late C12 north doorway with two orders of shafts, stiff-leaf decoration to outer capitals and arch with roll and keel mouldings. 2-light Y-tracery west window to aisle. North nave clerestorey as south.
As listed on Historic England website
Interior
Interior Description
C14 north and south arcades of three bays each, the south apparently earlier with quatrefoil piers and responds, arches with double hollow-chamfer. North arcade has octagonal piers with double-chamfer to arches. Tall, narrow tower arch, the semicircular arched head now infilled. Roofs all replaced in softwood C19 or early C20. Chapel in eastern bay of north aisle approached through an archway with details similar to south arcade; piscina recess in south-east corner. C15 screen with traceried and ogee-headed lights under a brattished cornice, central opening with dropped ogee arch with small head-pendants and traceried spandrels. Much colour and decoration remains. Chancel stalls incorporate some old bench ends and re-used rails and panelling. Dropped-cill sedilia with matched angle piscinae on each side, that to the east with bowl and drain; cusped arches on Purbeck shafts. Late C17 communion rail with twisted balusters and square panelled newels. Three monuments to the Stone family on north wall of chancel. Chancel floor has memorial and coffin slabs inset. North aisle has floor slabs to the Stone family; south aisle has floor slabs to Stone and Copping families. Font C15, octagonal, on two risers, the upper riser with quatrefoil decoration: four lions around the stem, angel corbels below bowl, angels, beasts and roses around bowl. Some good C15 carved bench ends; some re-set medieval glass and two roundels in east window of north aisle.
As listed on Historic England website
Fixtures and fittings
Bell Frame
1520
Maker
Pickford
5.H
Date
1520
Visit
PC 4/79
Description
OFJ
Jurisdiction
Number of Bells
Material
Bells
Bell 2 of 5
Founded by John Taylor 1842
Dove Bell ID: 10494 Tower ID: 12722 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 476 lbs Diameter: 27.25" Bell 3 of 5
Founded by John Goldsmith 1710
Dove Bell ID: 10495 Tower ID: 12722 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 596 lbs Bell 4 of 5
Founded by Pack & Chapman 1778
Dove Bell ID: 10496 Tower ID: 12722 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Bell 5 of 5
Founded by John I Brend 1573
Dove Bell ID: 10497 Tower ID: 12722 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: TM 285 933
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.
The churchyard has war graves.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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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.
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