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St Mary

St Mary

Cratfield

Suffolk

Tower with mid C15 features but earlier core: the west face has 2-stage diagonal buttresses and a fine doorway with an enriched moulded arch

Architectural Features

the hoodmould has carved stops in the form of lions and well-preserved carved spandrels showing a wild man and a dragon

carved stone parapet with crenellations and corner pinnacles.

4-bay aisles: the south aisle is C14, with 2 original windows

others of C15

the north aisle is C15 with original windows and doorway.

C15 porch with an empty niche over the entrance arch and a crenellated stone parapet.

Chancel with C14 core

windows of C15, some restored

C14 Priest's doorway.

Late C15 arched- braced nave roof of 5 bays.

The north aisle roof (restored) has carved wooden corbels supporting the wallposts.

Fine C15 font, the bowl. carved with the Seven Sacraments (2 panels missing)

richly carved stem with figures under canopied niches and further seated figures around the base

the font stands on a 2- stepped plinth, the upper step carved with blank tracery.

The aisles have a set of 20 benches, probably of C17, with unusual volute-type stylized poppyheads.

Late C19 pulpit incorporating some early C17 carved panels.

Part of C15 rood screen against west wall of nave.

Wall monument to Sarah Mynne in north aisle.

Several C17-C18 ledger slabs at west end of nave, 2 with brass inscriptions.

Fragments of medieval glass in tracery of south chancel windows.

Graded I for medieval fabric.