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St Lawrence, Formerly Church of All Saints

St Lawrence, Formerly Church Of All Saints

Little Wenham

Suffolk

Nave and chancel, C15 south porch.

Architectural Features

C15 west tower.

Mainly rubble and random flint, some flint flushwork to west tower, C16 red brick bell chamber to tower, ashlar and stone dressings.

Carved heads below east and west parapet verges.

South wall of chancel and nave:- End and central buttresses, plinth, carved heads below north and south parapet verges.

C15 timber framed, gabled porch on brick walls.

Moulded top plates to side walls and early C17 turned balusters used as mullions.

Chancel floor of brick pammets and medieval floor tiles.

3, William Bruce 1677 and Coat of Arms.

5, Dame Susanna Brewse 1660.

Altar rails C17 style with twisted balusters.

Flanking the east window are medieval wall paintings, to south, under canopies SS Martha, Catherine and Mary Magdalene, to east seated Virgin with Child on her lap under a canopy.

South wall, elaborate memorial to Joannes Brewse, 1585.

3 panels below a recessed arch with once a kneeling figure before an altar and book.

The figure has been reclaimed by ne Police and will be restored to its position.

This monument covers the arches of the former canopied sedilia.

Above the priest's door in the south wall is a marble monument to Alice Walker 1682, 2 cherubs' heads and draped decoration.

Adjacent to east of this window is a medieval coffin lid with carved sword.

Central floor slab with brasses of Thomas Brewse and his wife Jane, 1514, under a double canopy, beneath their feet are 2 sons and 3 daughters, edge inscriptions and shields of arms.

The chancel is divided from the nave by the plastered rubble wall bases of the former rood screen, which are 62" high and 16" thick.

To east of the north door is a wall painting of St Christopher and the Christ Child.

Lords Prayer Board to west of the doorway which has a chamfered segmental arch attached to the north wall, west of the north door are fragments of C17 panelling.

Side shafts with tracery and crocketted finials, crenellated head, said to commemorate Gilbert de Debenham d. 1371.

C17/C18 hexagonal oak panelled pulpit, wreathed handrail, twisted balusters.

Linenfold panels with carved pilasters to backs of 2 pews.

Font, C14 much restored, simple octagonal stem with central drum and hexagonal angle columns, traces of red paint to original work.