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St Mary

St Mary

Mid Suffolk

Suffolk

BUXHALL BRETTENHAM ROAD TM 05 NW 2/23 Church of St. Mary 9.12.55 - I Parish church, mainly mid C14 in several phases

Architectural Features

All the C14 work is of good quality with much moulded stone

the chancel is earliest - of c.1330.

each corner has a grotesque carved on the base.

On the seat is a repositioned C14 tomb slab with cross-shaft.

Large nave of c.1360 with tall 2-light windows, an ogee-headed piscina and moulded north and south doorways.

South porch of late C14 is shafted and hood-moulded, and above is a niche for the image of the Virgin Mary, ogee-headed pinnacled and buttressed.

Large late C14 west tower with 3-light west window and grotesque gargoyles.

The ringing chamber floor is original, supported on massive arch braces and corbels carved with grotesques.

The chancel roof was rebuilt 1656 as carved with the initials J.H., F.G. and T.C

one beam bears the date 1652.

Some good stained glass in the chancel windows believed to date from 1410

other glass in the south nave windows.

Octagonal mid C14 font

Two C19 benches in the chancel have reused poppyhead ends and the fronts have C14 blind tracery.

Late C17 altar rails.

In the chancel are 3 marble floor slabs, one dated 1692, another 1584.