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St Mary

St Mary

Flixton

Suffolk

The west tower, 1856, by Salvin, replaces the earlier tower, said to be Saxon, which collapsed.

Architectural Features

It is built in a Saxo-Norman style, with 2-light Saxon windows to the top stage and a helm roof, plaintiled, and surmounted by a weathercock.

Nave of 1861, with gabled buttresses in C14 style and 2-light traceried windows.

The early C14 north arcade is the only part of the medieval structure to survive: in 4 bays, with piers of quatrefoil section and arches with 2 wave mouldings.

Small C16 octagonal pulpit on a slender base, with a double row of square panels, some with heraldic carving, some with linenfold.

On the nave floor, a small brass to Elizabeth, wife of John Tasburgh, d. 1583,

various black ledger slabs, those of the C17 to members of the Tasburgh family, those of later date to the Adairs.

At the back of the north aisle, a small octagonal memorial chapel in Early English style with groined stone roof, erected in 1895 to the memory of Theodosia, Lady Waveney, d. 1871.

It contains a life-size kneeling figure of Lady Waveney, a major work of John Bell.