Monument record PSG 003 - St Mary's Church

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Summary

Church recorded as having elements of late Anglo Saxon construction. 19th Century restoration has destroyed all trace of earlier work. A mainly 13th and 14th century church of random flint with stone dressings, but with remains of 12th century work, including a fine South doorway with one order of shafts and scalloped capitals and a semi-circular tympanum carved in an interlacing pattern with stars and rosets; the jambs of the North door and a slit window in the North wall of the nave. The chancel has late 13th century windows.

Location

Grid reference	Centred TL 577e 2482 (72m by 59m)
Map sheet	TL52SE
Civil Parish	POSLINGFORD, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

St Mary's Church (Vicarage).
Norman nave; late C13 chancel and W tower; Perpendicular S porch. Domesday Book: Lands of Ralph Baignard: Poslingewrda - a church with 40 acres (S1). Further details in (S2)(S3). Heavily restored 1882-1883. Drawings of pre & post restoration in parish file (S4).
August 1991: Examination of re-used C13 (Early English) stone window/door jambs built into quoins of SE tower buttress. Details in (S5).

As part of a study of Suffolk church chests being undertaken by David Sherlock, further chests have been assessed and a detailed study was carried out on two of the chests as below: Church of St Mary the Virgin, Poslingford (TL/769481). Micro-cores were extracted from the front and rear left hand stiles, the front top board and the right hand top board. The two stiles were found to have come from the same tree and yielded a 159-year ring sequence, the other boards giving 165 and 201 rings respectively. A 205-year chronology was derived for the chest which dated to the period 1067-1271, the oak having grown in the Baltic region, probably in modern Poland. All the timbers retained the heartwood/sapwood boundary and allowing for some brief seasoning and transport the most likely period for construction of the chest is the final quarter of the thirteenth century. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2007

Sources/Archives (8)

<M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: copy (S4).
<S1> SSF54455 Bibliographic reference: 1911. Victoria County History, Suffolk (VCH). 550.
<S2> SSF10041 (No record type): Jarvis, H.. Jarvis Rev H, `Poslingford Church', PSIA, 8, 1893, (2), 241-256, ill.
<S3> SSF16083 Bibliographic reference: Pevsner N & Radcliffe E. 1974. The Buildings of England: Suffolk. 396.
<S4> SSF3997 (No record type): Colpoys A A G, `Drawings of Poslingford Church, Suffolk', circa 1880.
<S5> SSF19084 (No record type): SAU, Carr R D, field report, letter & drawings, August 1991.
<S6> SSF59794 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record Of the Historic Environment.
<S7> SSF55370 Article in serial: Martin, E.A., Pendleton, C. & Plouviez, J.. 2008. Archaeology in Suffolk 2007. XXXXI (4).

Finds (1)

FSF11953: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (13th century to 14th century - 1201 AD to 1300 AD)

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Record last edited

Jul 26 2024 3:36PM