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St Mary

Architectural Features

Flint, with ashlar dressings: roofs of clay plaintiles with alternating bands of plain and fishscale tiles.

Early C14 tower, mainly in kidney flint, part coursed, with angle buttresses faced with ashlar.

Continuous arch to south doorway of c.1300, without capitals.

The interior of the nave is filled with crudely-carved mid C19 benches, in a curious Jacobean Gothic style: a few C15 benches, with damaged poppyheads and figures, at the back.

Also at the rear are the 5 bells, dismounted and standing on the floor, and the font: a plain octagonal bowl and moulded shaft on a high round base, with a damaged Jacobean cover.

On the north wall are the remains of 4 medieval paintings: St Christopher, St. George and the Dragon twice, and the martyrdom of St. Edmund.

All the heads of the nave windows are filled with fragments of medieval glass.

C15 carved screen, with one-light divisions, crudely guilded and repainted, with a C19 cross above.

Fine Jacobean pulpit with a reader's desk in front of it made up of a mixture of heavily-carved C17 panels, probably reused from an overmantel.

Floor to nave paved with old 4-inch tiles in black and red, set diagonally.

Several C15 benches, with poppy-heads and animals, one apparently a mermaid (cf.Ixworth Thorpe).

C15 roof: 3 bays, moulded butt purlins and solid arched braces to high collars.

3 memorial tablets on the north wall, the central to Lieut.

Memorial stained glass of c.1960 in the east window.