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St Andrew

St Andrew

Mutford

Suffolk

Round tower, C11 or earlier, with various later blocked lancet windows.

Architectural Features

Octagonal belfry stage, probably C14: there are openings on 4 faces, alternating with dummy openings in flushwork

Early C14 Galilee porch, much restored: wide segmental entrance arch, almost semi-circular

The nave north wall is C12, with 2 2-light Perpendicular windows.

Early C14 aisle with 2 restored Y-tracery windows to the south

C14 chancel: large 3-light east window, the tracery probably renewed C19

6-bay nave roof, probably C17

In the north east nave is a semi-circular headed recess with C12 chrevron-moulded arch, perhaps the tomb of a founder of the church.

The aisle has a good C14 piscina with a cusped and pinnacled ogee arch enriched with foliage, and set against a canopied background with panelling.

St Andrew's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087547 is situated on an elevation beside the lane leading to the village of Mutford. The church is of Saxon origins and has the tallest round tower in Suffolk.  The church is also the only one in England with a Galilee porch > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087557  built against a round tower. ( A Galilee porch is a porch that issituated at the west end of a church.)  Extensively restored in Victorian times not much of the original interior has survived but the C15 baptismal font still stands where it always stood at the church's west end.  There is an elaborately carved piscina > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087562 in the south aisle and a curious very faded wall painting > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087569 which can no longer be identified.

Late C14 octagonal font: 4 lions against the stem and angels on the underside of the bowl, the carved bowl panels now lost

St Andrew's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087547 is situated on an elevation beside the lane leading to the village of Mutford. The church is of Saxon origins and has the tallest round tower in Suffolk. The church is also the only one in England with a Galilee porch > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087557 built against a round tower. ( A Galilee porch is a porch that issituated at the west end of a church.) Extensively restored in Victorian times not much of the original interior has survived but the C15 baptismal font still stands where it always stood at the church's west end. There is an elaborately carved piscina > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087562 in the south aisle and a curious very faded wall painting > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087569 which can no longer be identified.

© Evelyn Simak

A little C15 woodwork with remains of traceried panels is incorporated in a screen below the tower arch.

4 nave benches have C15 poppyhead ends and 5 others have similar but later ends.