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St John
Stanton Chare
Suffolk
C14: since repairs in 1980 the walls are standing to their full height.
Architectural Features
C13 north and south doorways with continuous hollow chamfer mouldings.
C14 porch, formerly gabled: 2 diagonal buttresses with chequerwork bases in stone and black knapped flint, and a blocked niche above the doorway.
A panel on the outside of the east gable has the dates 1616 and 1858 and initials GB for George Bidwell, Rector 1811-1865.
The exterior of the east wall is rendered, and the slope of the gable finished in crow-stepped red brick: this was apparently part of the 1616 restoration work, which clearly did not involve the complete rebuilding of the chancel (as stated by Pevsner).