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All Saints

All Saints

West Suffolk

Suffolk

C15, restored 1863/4.

Architectural Features

Small, unbuttressed tower without a west door: 3 stages with fine grotesque gargoyles below the parapet.

C12 south doorway with one order of shafts, volute capitals, each different, and a roll-moulded arch.

C15 south porch, faced in black knapped flint, with a shallow gabled parapet faced with stone quatrefoils

A 2-bay open timber roof with ogee-mouldings to joists and cross beams and carved bosses at the intersections: the central boss, a bearded human face with protruding tongue, is particularly fine.

Late C15 south aisle, the same height as the nave, which was added to the south wall of the porch and extends beyond the east end of the nave: 3 2-light Perpendicular windows on the south side, and a renewed 3-light east window

A row of gargoyles below the parapet.

Nave interior with a fine set of 8 pairs of C15 benches with poppyheads, one pair also with animals carved on the armrests.

north aisle roof with ogee-moulded main timbers and joists, arched bracing to the principals, carved bosses

A C15 doorway with panelled jambs and carved spandrels leads from the east end of the north aisle into the north transept, now the vestry.