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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Bedfield

Suffolk

C15 tower: square, with 4 stages and crenellated parapet.

Architectural Features

Nave has C12 core: original north doorway with one order of colonnettes and a chevron arch.

Early C14 south doorway with medieval door.

Various late C14

C15 windows, 2 to south with mask stops to the hoodmoulds.

C15 porch: wide hoodmoulded entrance with cinquefoil-headed niche above

C12 chancel, extended to east in C14.

C14 or early C15 coupled-rafter nave roof with scissor-braced collars and a moulded cornice enriched with fleurons

Chancel has a C14 piscina with 2-centred arch

Early C15 octagonal font, the 8 bowl panels carved with 5 different traceried designs and 3 shields.

Fine early C17 font cover: panelled base with detached columns at the angles

openwork above, with carved brackets converging on a central column which terminates in a spike finial.

At west end of nave are 8 benches with ends terminating in scrolls, perhaps C16.

Early C17 pulpit with bookboard on carved brackets.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1032340?section=official-list-entry

C15 dado of rood screen with traceried panels painted with Old Testament prophets.

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