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St James

St James

West Suffolk

Suffolk

Church, Medieval, restored 1864.

Architectural Features

The chancel is of c.1300, with 2-light south windows, restored priest's doorway and a 3- light west window with intersecting tracery and internal shafts.

Late C14 south doorway and later north doorway

Aisle and clerestory window of 2 lights, all of various mid and late C14 designs, some perhaps reset.

Large mask gargoyles to both aisles.

North porch added, and north chancel window inserted later C15.

4-bay nave arcade of c.1400, with moulded pilasters

The C15 rood- loft stairs and a doorway survive, and a number of tracery panels taken from the screen are fixed to C19 choirstalls.

Flat nave roof with moulded cambered tie-beams and purlins, perhaps rebuilt c.1600.

Chancel roof canted and boarded, with C15 moulded cornice and bosses with floral and mask motifs.

A mediaeval octafoil bowl is reused in the C19 chancel piscina.

Octagonal C15 limestone font with quatrefoil panel led bowl and traceried stem, recut or renewed C19.

In the south aisle is a marble wall tablet with painted achievement to John Talbot, d. 1689, and his daughter Isabella, d. 1704.

2 medieval floor slabs in the chancel probably once contained brasses.