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St Mary

St Mary

Mid Suffolk

Suffolk

TM 15 SW 3/8 BARHAM Church Lane Church of St. Mary 9.12.55 I Parish church, Medieval with mid C19 alterations.

Architectural Features

The nave clerestory and vestry have red brickwork of c.1500.

The chancel has late C13 work: south doorway, sedilia with tall shafts and pierced trefoils, a cusped piscina, and opposite is a large niche, perhaps an aumbry.

Nave rebuilt mia C14

Later in C14 a 2-bay chapel was added to north of nave, later to be extended.

C.1500, the nave walls were raised in red brick for a 7-bay hammerbeam roof, with clerestory windows in each bay.

The hammerbeams and cornice are crenellated, but the upper part of the roof was renewed with king-posts on collarbeams in C19, when the angels were also replaced.

A 4- light window of c.1525 in the vestry has a frame and mullions of terracotta with early Renaissance moulding.

The east window (in C13 style)

west window (C14 style) were introduced mid C19.

In the Middleton Chapel is a fine section of C15 rood screen, no doubt removed from the chancel-arch in C18 and augmented with contemporary panelling.

The C19 pulpit also has traceried and coloured panels from the same source.

Carved Italian altar rails, dated 1700

A set of 5 plain C16 poppyhead benches in the nave.

In the chancel is a fine C15 recessed and canopied table monument with cusped and crocketed ogee-arched head.

A wall monument to Sir Richard Southwell, d. 1640, with effigies of him and his wife.

In the chancel floor is a brass to Robert Southwell A floor slab of 1629 in the chancel, and seven others of late C17 and early C18 in the nave.