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St Andrew

St Andrew

West Suffolk

Suffolk

TL 67 SE 3/22 FRECKENHAM CHURCH LANE Church of St. Andrew 7.5.54 II* Church, Medieval with alterations of 1867-69 by G.E Street

Architectural Features

In the chancel are several features of late C13: a Y-traceried vestry window, another in the chancel with low-side windows, another with plate tracery and dropped-cell sedilia, and the adjacent double piscina with trefoiled head.

Of c.1300 is the three-light east window with inner shafts

the hoodmould and flanking dado have carved foliate stops.

North and south nave doorways and vestry doorway all plain, perhaps of c.1300

The north aisle was added late C14

Later C14 aisle roof with arch-braced tie-beams, moulded purlins with leaf-carved bosses and applied angels

wall-pieces on figure-carved wooden corbels.

The chapel roof and window are of C15

also roofs to nave and chancel, canted and boarded in square panels with carved bosses

in the chancel these contain painted escutcheons, in the nave they are leaf-carved.

The porch was rebuilt 1867 with moulded arched doorway in the manner of c.1300.

Octagonal limestone font of late C14 or C15.

In the nave and aisle are five sets of eight C15 pews, well-restored, many having original poppy-head ends with fine carved figures.

it is believed to be from a C15 altar and depicts a miracle by St. Eligius.

In several chancel windows is good C19 stained glass, some with painted borders perhaps containing medieval glass.