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St Lawrence

St Lawrence

South Cove

Suffolk

C15 square tower: 3-stage diagonal buttresses to west face and crenellated parapet, both with flushwork decoration

Architectural Features

C12 nave with original north and south doorways.

The north doorway has a good C15 door with crocketed ogee arches to the panels and tracery above.

2-light C15 windows to north

3 2-light windows to south, of C14-C15.

Chancel probably early C14: 2-light windows with Y tracery, one to north, 2 to south

Fine C15 arch-braced nave roof of 7 bays, with east-west bracing between the wall posts and along the ridge.

C13 angle piscina in south chancel, with triple sedilia adjacent.

TM4980 : South Cove, St. Lawrence's Church: The battered font

Defaced C15 octagonal font bowl.

TM4980 : South Cove, St. Lawrence's Church: The battered font

© Michael Garlick

Early C17 carved pulpit, reduced from a 3-decker.

The nave has a good set of 24 C15 benches, the ends carved with tracery and poppyheads.

The south section of the dado of the C15 rood screen remains in position: 6 cusped blank panels in 2 bays with remains of original colouring and gesso work.

C15 painting of St. Michael on boarded door to rood loft stairs: if original this door is a rare survival.