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St Botolph

St Botolph

Culpho

Suffolk

66 II* Church, Medieval, restored 1884.

Architectural Features

Chancel of mid C13: south doorway hoodmoulded with corbel faces, and single-light north and south windows.

Early C14 alterations: 3-light windows with intersecting tracery in north and south walls, Y-tracery 2-light windows in nave side walls.

C14 nave doorway, roll-and-fillet moulded with square label, original oak door with moulded ribs

A C14 trefoiled piscina, with adjacent dropped-cill sedilia cut into earlier south chancel window.

Plain C14 south doorway, blocked by C17/C18 brickwork.

Tower, with porch formed within ground floor, added C15

Nave roof rebuilt C17, with moulded wall-pieces, otherwise plain Chancel arch of moulded stucco with flanking red brick walling

Gothick in form perhaps of late C17 or early C18.

Scissor-braced chancel roof of 1884 with sections of moulded cornice perhaps of C14, reused.

TM2149 : Culpho, St. Botolph's Church: Octagonal Perpendicular Period font 5

Octagonal C15 limestone font, traceried, with restored C17 oak cover.

TM2149 : Culpho, St. Botolph's Church: Octagonal Perpendicular Period font 5

© Michael Garlick