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the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Blessed Virgin Mary

Stonham Aspal

Suffolk

Parish church, Medieval.

Architectural Features

The slated nave roof has fine C15 parapets with freestone tracery

the clerestory windows have inner shafts and some original glass.

There is much early and mid C14 work.

The C14 tower has a hood-moulded doorway with grotesque corbels

Chancel is almost entirely of mid C14: east window with net tracery, and flanking external image niches.

Lead-roofed south aisle also with C14 windows.

North and south doorways have good C14 multiple mouldings.

Nave arcaded in 4 bays, with C14 moulded pier capitals.

The north aisle was remodelled in C15

The C15 north porch has a shafted outer doorway.

A C14 piscina in the south aisle

In north chancel wall is a recessed tomb of c.1330 with the recumbent limestone figure of a knight

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Octagonal font of c.1300

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Much good C14

C15 window glass.

The early C17 pulpit is octagonal, with arcaded faces

the sounding board is reused in a table and bears the date 1616.

Two C16 tomb slabs in the sanctuary have sinkings for brasses

A set of C16 nave pews are C19 work, but most have C16 poppyhead ends, with good animal figures on the buttresses.

10 pews in the aisles, also of C19, have C17 carved ends.