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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Otley

Suffolk

Tower: Early C15 west face: diagonal buttresses with panels of flushwork to their outer faces which die back by 4 offsets.

Architectural Features

Late C15 door with much replaced work of C19 or C20 date showing figures of saints to the central stile and hinge stiles raised on image stools and with crocketed pinnacles above in relief (somewhat similar to the door within the Seckford porch at Great Bealings).

Brick string course below the parapet which is of C16 brick and battlemented.

Hammer beams which take the form of the bodies of angels which have lost their wings and heads and in 4 cases have square tie rods drilled through them.

The hammerbeams are supported by wall posts which also terminate in angels which have lost their heads and wings and are connected to the hammerbeams by arched braces.

Chancel arch of C14 date with semi-octagonal piers with moulded caps and cut-back bases.

Chancel roof of 3 1/2 bays with trusses of late C17 or c.1840 (Pevsner) which have short hammerbeams resting on wallposts with arch braces.

Octagonal font on a square base with lions to the corners and recessed panels to the bowl showing angels bearing shieldes and defaced lions.

Octagonal C17 pulpit of wood with three tiers of rich panelling on a C19 plinth.

Lower body of a rood screen dividing the nave from the chancel.

Wall monument to John Gosnold in the chancel of c.1628.

Several medieval bench ends and fragments of benches.

Pevsner records an immersion font in the vestry, probably of C17 date, not seen at resurvey.