Monument record ELV 007 - Church of St Andrew and St Patrick

Elveden church is within diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, archdeaconry of Sudbury, deanery of Mildenhall. Status : rectory (S1).
In 1904 Viscount Iveagh employed W D Caroe to build a new church to the N side of the Med one. Caroe built a new nave and a chancel and a detached bell tower with a cloister walk leading to it. The old nave (ie the S aisle of the present church) has a Norman slit window flanked by niches. In the old chancel are traces of image brackets on the E wall, a simple piscina, and a C14 window with dropped window-sill sedilia. The E window of the old chancel has 4 lights with flowing tracery. The W tower of the old Med church was erected in 1421 using material from an earlier tower. The 4 pinnacles are thought to represent 4 shepherds who gave them. Later, the Decorated S chapel and late Perpendicular aisle were added. In C17 the church was altered internally. In 1869 the Maharajah Duleep Singh, who owned the hall from 1863 to 1893, undertook the restoration of the Med church. Many of the nave windows were renewed with Bath stone, the thatch was replaced by slate and deal benches replaced the box pews (S2).
The new church built by Caroe dates from 1906. The chancel contains a piscina, a sedilia and an aumbry. The E window is of 5 lights. In the N wall is a recess containing a Med stone coffin and above the parapet are seated figures and winged creatures. The main feature of the new chancel is a magnificent alabaster reredos with tiers of saints, missionaries, kings and queens of East Anglia. The chancel roof circa 1906 is a barrel roof studded with bosses. The original Med N wall of the church was replaced by an arcade with piers, the panelled and foliate detail of which defies description. A similar arcade frames the N nave windows. The present S aisle is the original nave of the church and it has an elaborate roof. The nave roof is a double hammer-beam with angels and is heavy in detail. The font is C19 and alabaster. There is an elaborate porch at the W end of the new nave. The W front of the church has a small NW turret which balances the original tower. The cloister and bell tower are a memorial to Viscount Iveagh who died in 1916. They were completed in 1922 (the last part of the new church to be constructed). The cloister has 4-light openings and a roof of Gloucestershire limestone tiles outside and a quadripartite vault with innumerable bosses inside. The tower at the end of the cloister is 72 feet high and its staircase turret extends above the embattled parapet. It is of traditional flint with stone dressings and flushwork decoration : the dressings are very elaborate with decorative paterre and corbels. There are double sets of belfry windows and set back buttresses (S2).