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St Peter

St Peter

Athelington

Suffolk

Square unbuttressed tower, largely C15

Architectural Features

2-light west window with early C14 tracery but Perpendicular-style head

Nave and chancel probably early C14.

C14 scissor-braced rafter roof with collars and ashlar pieces.

Rood beam in situ, supported by 2 good C14 corbel heads of a king and queen, placed here from elsewhere in the church in 1873.

C15 octagonal font, the bowl panels shallow-carved with traceried designs, no 2 alike.

In the nave, 10 fine poppyhead bench-ends of C15 date, carefully restored in C19.

The ends are traceried and there are side buttresses supporting standing figures or heads.

At the west end, 2 C15 half-ends.