NHER 5573 (Monument record) - Ruins of All Saints' Church, Garboldisham

July 1958. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Remains of church of All Saints 16/7/58 11 Remains of Tower. Late C14, demolished 1734. Flint with ashlar dressings. 2 stages with diagonal buttresses. West window under depressed arch now with- out tracery. Trefoiled lancet above string course. 2-light belfry window with 4-centred arch. Parapet with brick crenellations. Scheduled Ancient Monument, County No. 78.
Information from (S1).
H. Mellor (HES), 26 June 2017.

September 1975.
Late 14th century, demolished 1734. Tower remains to full height, cracked, covered in ivy; (S1) calls tower 18th century but this must be a mistake. Nothing else. Graveyard thickly overgrown.
See (S2) in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 26 September 1975.

According to (S3) the church before demolition was Decorated and Early English, thatched, with an already ruined chapel at the east end with buttresses marked 'TB' for Thomas de Bosco, rector. On the tower were merchants marks of shears and a wool comb, and inside a board to say the roof was repaired around 1450.
E. Rose (NAU).

Sketch map of Garboldisham before 1776 including the location of All Saint's church (S4).
H. Mellor (HES), 16 September 2015.

Merchants mark still remains.
See (S5).
E. Rose (NAU).

See (S5) for a detailed description of the church.
In 1523 a bequest was left for painting the rood beam and setting up a tabernacle on it. Information from member of the public [1].
E. Rose (NLA), 5 January 1995.

(S6) recounts a legend that the patron of the church, the earl of Oxford, to save money allowed it to decay on the grounds that there was no clerk. A tailor and a woolcomber raised the funds instead hence the merchants marks described above.
E. Rose (NLA), 7 July 2006.

February 2010.
Section 17 management agreement signed.
See (S7).
D. Robertson (NLA), 11 August 2010.