Architectural Features
The nave windows are largely C14 in style.
The tower was added in the C15.
The chancel has angle buttresses, and a C13 triple lancet E window with a continuous hood mould.
There are 3 C13 lancets on the N side, and 2 on the S. There is also a chamfered S chancel door.
The nave has C14 style windows, all slightly different.
The door itself is also late medieval.
Tall double-chamfered tower arch and medieval timber ceiling in tower with hollow chamfered beams divided into panels.
Head corbels slightly to the W of the screen on either side mark the position of the former rood screen, and the curve of the former rood stair is also still visible.
Below this is the remains of a probably C15 trefoil headed piscina in a square frame.
PRINCIPAL FIXTURES C13 3-seat stepped sedilia and matching piscina in chancel.
The remains of a further C15 piscina with a trefoil head in the nave below the former rood beam.
N door: late medieval plank and cover strip door.
Both nave and chancel have C19 encaustic tile floors in a geometric pattern.
C19 pulpit with two timber panels with linenfold and tracery on a moulded stone base.
Glass in the chancel of the 1870s by Constable of Cambridge.
Very small timber font of 1989 with an octagonal bowl on an octagonal stem.
The earliest visible fabric is the C13 chancel.
The nave was rebuilt in the C15, but may have earlier origins.
The entire church was heavily restored in the C19 and much of the glass was lost during WWII.
Photos and other info on http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gtwratting.htm REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The church of St Mary, Great Wratting, Suffolk, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * The church has excellent survival of medieval fabric, including a C13 chancel, fine C15 tower and nave with possible early origins. * Some good medieval fittings survive, including a sedilia and two piscinas. * The whole has been heavily restored, and has a very good C19 screen and an interesting C19 roof.