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St Michael

St Michael

Cookley Green

Suffolk

Medieval, restored 1894.

Architectural Features

Square unbuttressed C12 tower with later crenellated parapet with flushwork panels

Nave with C12 core

windows in C15 style, mostly renewed.

Good C12 north doorway, now within the vestry: one order of shafts and a semi-circular arch with chevron moulding.

2-bay chancel, probably C14: one broad lancet window to the north, the other windows and the Priest's doorway all much restored or renewed.

Good 4-bay late C15/early C16 hammerbeam nave roof with crenellated wallplate, the wall posts resting on carved timber corbels in the form of heads.

St Michael's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1930540 was extensively restored in Victorian times, a few carved bench ends > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1930554 as well as a pair of figure brasses > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1930558 and the East Anglian-style font bowl have survived.

C15 font bowl with well-preserved carved panels.

St Michael's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1930540 was extensively restored in Victorian times, a few carved bench ends > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1930554 as well as a pair of figure brasses > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1930558 and the East Anglian-style font bowl have survived.

© Evelyn Simak

The nave has 4 good C15 poppyhead benches with carved ends and backs to the seats, and mutilated arm rests.

The chancel stalls incorporate traceried panels, probably from the rood screen.

Effigy brass of William Browne , his wife and their 8 children, remounted on west wall of nave.

Graded I for surviving medieval work.