All Saints, Ringsfield
All Saints, Ringsfield
All Saints is a Grade II* thatched parish church on Church Road in Ringsfield, near Beccles, in the Hundred River and Wainford Benefice in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
- Location
- Ringsfield, Suffolk
- Country
- England
- County
- Suffolk
- City / town
- Ringsfield
- Address
- Church Road, Ringsfield, Suffolk, NR34 8JZ
- Postcode
- NR34 8JZ
- Built
- C15 tower and part of nave; porch probably late C16; east end and chancel rebuilt 1883–4
- Architect
- William Butterfield (1883–4 rebuild)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
- Parish
- Ringsfield All Saints
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Perpendicular, with Victorian rebuilding
- Materials
- Flint rubble with stone dressings, plastered except tower and porch; thatched roof
- Grid reference
- TM 403 884
- Opening hours
- The church is never closed, it has services every Sunday, some times two on the first Sunday of the month.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access throughout
Overview
The listing records a medieval church considerably rebuilt by William Butterfield in 1883–4. The fifteenth-century square unbuttressed west tower retains its two-light west window and Y-traceried belfry openings, with a seventeenth-century stepped red-brick parapet of flushwork and pierced obelisk pinnacles. Part of the nave is fifteenth-century; the east end and chancel are Butterfield’s. Flint rubble with stone dressings is plastered except on the tower and the crow-stepped brick south porch (probably late sixteenth century, much restored). The continuous roof is thatched.
Against the south chancel wall is a brick aedicule with a mermaid crest and an inscription to Nicholas Garneys (1628). On the north, a 1902 monument commemorates Princess Caroline Murat, great-niece of Napoleon. The interior has a fifteenth-century octagonal font, an early-seventeenth-century pulpit and screen, and a set of probably seventeenth-century nave benches.