All Saints, Gazeley
All Saints, Gazeley
All Saints is the Grade I parish church of Gazeley, Suffolk, a substantial early fourteenth-century flint church with late fifteenth-century aisles and clerestory, in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
- Location
- Gazeley, Suffolk
- Country
- England
- County
- Suffolk
- City / town
- Gazeley
- Address
- The Street, Gazeley, Suffolk, CB8 8RS
- Postcode
- CB8 8RS
- Built
- Early 14th century; late 15th-century aisles, clerestory and re-roofing; tower upper stage partly rebuilt 1884
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
- Parish
- Gazeley All Saints
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Decorated; Perpendicular
- Materials
- Flint rubble with areas of rendering; freestone dressings; plain-tiled chancel and porch, slated nave
- Grid reference
- TL 719 641
- Opening hours
- Opened every day 9am to 5pm by a team of volunteers, locked at night.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
- Website
- https://gazeleychurch.org/
Overview
Historic England describes a medieval church of nave, chancel, north and south aisles, south porch and west tower, of flint rubble with freestone dressings. The chancel and tower are early Decorated; the listing notes an unusual three-light east window under a cusped trefoil, a piscina integral with a double window-seat sedilia, and a projecting aumbry with crocketed canopy. Four-bay nave arcades have quatrefoil piers. Late fifteenth-century work raised the aisle and nave walls for large windows and a new clerestory, and the church was re-roofed; the porch is fifteenth-century. The tower’s upper stage was partly rebuilt in 1884.
Fittings include a fourteenth-century octagonal limestone font, a late sixteenth-century screen complete to the rood beam, and an octagonal pulpit of about 1500. Suffolk Heritage Explorer records dendrochronology on south-aisle timbers giving a likely felling date of 1371–1403. The church was listed Grade I on 7 May 1954 (NHLE 1037675).