St Mary
Rougham
Suffolk
3 buttresses bear inscriptions, partly obliterated, and the date 1514: one reads 'We pray you to remember us that causyde ye yle to be made thus', and the other 'DNS JOHES SYMTH LE CURATOR ISTIUS ECCLESIAE WILMS.' The south aisle has cusped 3- light windows without tracery and one lancet at the west end.
Architectural Features
A fine early C14 south porch with a plain freestone parapet, moulded copings, and an ornate cross to the apex of the gable.
The coved open timber roof with moulded main beam is dated 1632.
C14 south doorway with continuous mouldings.
The hammer-beams are recumbent headless figures bearing various shields and devices.
The supporting arched braces have carved spandrels and capitals, with canopied niches below containing standing figures.
Roll-mouldings to the main cross-beams of the aisle roofs, with carved bosses at the intersections and a cornice with florets and a pierced cresting.
C14 arcades in 4 bays to both aisles with piers formed of 4 main shafts and 4 subsidiary shafts in the diagonals
Early C14 cusped piscinae to both aisles.
Remains of medieval glass in the east window of the north aisle, and some resited ornate Jacobean panelling.
Octagonal font, with traceried panels to the bowl.
A fine set of C15 benches with traceried ends and poppyheads, all different.
The figures on the arms have been cut off.
The backs have carved quatrefoils and a cresting.
a number of C17 marble wall tablets, one to Sir Robert Drury and his wife, 1621.