Architectural Features
Some C13 fabric in chancel including a lancet in north wall.
a pair of sedilia have a crouching hound between them, and another chancel window is also of c.1300.
Major rebuilding of nave and addition of transepts and porch in mid C14.
A number of 2-light C14 windows, some with individual tracery
Fine tower of c.1500: flushwork tracery to the buttresses, plinth and parapets
the C14 west window is reused above it.
In early C16 a clerestory was formed above the nave, with more flushwork tracery between the windows and at the parapets.
Very fine 10- bay hammer-beam nave roof, richly carved and moulded throughout, alternate trusses have true or false beams, the former carved as angels, the latter having pendentive posts with carved bosses.
Figures in canopied niches are at each wallpost.
C15 octagonal limestone font
TM1058 : Earl Stonham: Knotwork pattern on the octagonal font bowl
alternate faces of bowl have figures and emblems.
Octagonal pulpit, temp.
The C19 choirstalls incorporate C15 tracery from rood-screen, as well as 4 fine bench ends with carved figures.
6 poppyhead pews, also C15, are included in C19 nave seating.
Some fragments of C14 glass.
For details of nave roof and its imagery, The Fool in Medieval Church and Plays: Suffolk Review, April 1985: Timothy Easton.