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St Mary

St Mary

Coddenham

Suffolk

TM 1354 8/3 CODDENHAM Church Road Church of St. Mary 9-12-55 I Parish church.

Architectural Features

Medieval with major phases of mid C14

inclusions of brick rubble in both C14

C15 work.

Areas of C11/C12 rubble walling to north chancel, and perhaps west nave

The chancel was extended eastwards in mid C13: good east and south windows with hoodmould and tracery

Fine carved masks at the east gable kneeler stones.

Plain early C14 tower, raised by two stages in early C16 with flushwork parapets.

Nave and aisles rebuilt mid C14: arcades upon octagonal piers with moulded capitals, north and south doorways, windows with varied curvilinear tracery and a piscina in the south chapel, all with much hoodmoulding.

The nave and aisles were remodelled to a high standard in mid or late C15: clerestory in 7 full and 2 half bays

fine roof with trusses of double hammerbeams and short kingposts, all members being enriched and the arch-braces carved

angels and wall-post figures much renewed, but one at least of the former is original

Restored early C16 south porch, with flushwork panels, the doorway with label and lion corbels.

Some fragments of screen (now elsewhere) are dated 1534.

Early C17 arcaded pulpit on C19 limestone plinth.

Late C17 rails with barley-sugar balusters, at south chapel and at chancel arch.

In the chancel are C15 choirstalls with misericordes, and 4 reused bench-ends.

The limestone font in the C15 manner is probably a C19 renewal.

Three good wall monuments in the chancel: to Philip Bacon , to Revd.

In the south aisle is a floor slab with indents for brasses of C16 type.