Church

Holy Trinity, Boxted

Holy Trinity, Boxted

Holy Trinity at Braggon’s Hill, Boxted, Suffolk, is a Grade I fifteenth-century parish church of flint and stone, famous for Poley family monuments, in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

Location
Boxted, Suffolk
Country
England
County
Suffolk
City / town
Boxted
Address
Boxted, Suffolk, IP29 4DH
Postcode
IP29 4DH
Built
Mainly C15; C18 north-east Poley chapel
Denomination
Church of England
Dedication
Holy Trinity
Diocese
St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Parish
Hartest with Boxted All Saints
Grade
I
Style
Perpendicular
Materials
Flint and stone; west tower with stone rusticated quoins
Grid reference
TL 824 504
Opening hours
Open daily dawn to dusk.
Access
Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby

Overview

Historic England records a small church built of flint and stone, mainly of the fifteenth century. The west tower has rusticated stone quoins and a castellated parapet. The chancel has Jacobean hammer-beam roof trusses; fittings of the same period include an octagonal pulpit with tester, a parclose screen with balusters and achievements, and a three-sided communion rail with twisted balusters. Two sixteenth-century pews stand at the west end of the nave. The north-east chapel holds painted wood effigies and memorials to the Poleys of Boxted Hall, including an alabaster monument of 1725 to Sir John Poley (d.1638) and Dame Abigail. The church was formerly listed as All Saints. Listed Grade I on 23 March 1961, amended 9 February 1978 (NHLE 1351739); listing NGR TL8248450465. The civil parish church is now in the parish of Hartest with Boxted All Saints.

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