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St Ethelbert

St Ethelbert

Mid Suffolk

Suffolk

Medieval, the chancel restored 1879.

Architectural Features

original hoodmould with much-weathered carved spandrels.

Core of nave probably late C12.

Various C14

C15 windows.

2 of the C14 windows are largely original

C15 moulded south nave doorway.

C15 porch with flushwork panelling to the facade and an embattled parapet.

Moulded entrance arch with rose-carved spandrels.

Early C14 chancel: a good 5-light east window with intersecting tracery.

Coupled rafter nave roof of medieval date, with a pair of straight braces to each collar and ashlar pieces.

4-bay chancel roof: C15 trusses with long arched braces to the collars

Altered C14 angle piscina with drop-sill sedilia adjacent.

Off Church Road

Font has C13 bowl of Purbeck marble.

Off Church Road

© Geographer

Nave has 11 poppyhead bench-ends of C15 date with buttresses terminating in mutilated figures

some of the seats are original and one has a good C15 traceried back.

In the sanctuary is an effigy brass to Ann Dade 2 early C17 brass inscriptions and several late C17 and C18 ledger slabs, all to members of the Dade family.

On north wall of sanctuary, an early C17 alabaster wall monument, also to the Dade family.

In south east nave, an early C19 white marble wall monument to members of the Barker family, over which is a single hatchment.