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St Bartholomew

St Bartholomew

West Suffolk

Suffolk

Parish church of C14 and earlier origin, much restored in 1861.

Architectural Features

Flint, with freestone dressings, and plaintiled roofs with diaper patterns in black tiles.

A simple early C14 west doorway, with a large 3-light window with reticulated tracery above, and 4 2-light windows with cusped plate-tracery to top stage.

Its 2 windows are filled with fragments of medieval stained - glass.

All other windows in the building have clear glass.

The C14 south doorway, damaged, has one order of nook shafts.

C19 benches and pulpit, 2 doors to the rood stair in the north east corner, with a wide lodge, jutting out from the chancel arch in front of the upper door, which gave access to the rood loft.

3-bay arch-braced collar roof, with carved windbraces to the purlins which may come from an earlier roof.

Below at the west end of the nave, a plain square late C12 font with unusual moulded bases to the angles, resembling a waterleaf form.

Four C15 poppyhead bench ends survive.