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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Exning

Suffolk

Built c.1445 for Sir Walter Cotton.

Architectural Features

plain tile pyramidal tower roof and pent roof to tower turret.

Two C15 doors

Interior transept crossings with two bay arcades giving entry from chancel and nave to memorial chapels.

Nave and chancel roof of six bays, with plastered ceiling between main arch braced trusses supported on original carved corbels.

Rood screen, mid C15 with ogee arches.

Benches also C15 with carved poppy heads and rosettes.

Fragments of C15 stained glass.

TL6268 : St Nicholas, Landwade - Font

Font possibly C18 simple bowl on shafted pedastal.

TL6268 : St Nicholas, Landwade - Font

© John Salmon

Monuments, three tomb chests in chancel, weathered polished limestone, two wall monuments, recessed with brass indented plaques.

North trancept monument to Sir John Cotton d. 1593, tomb chest with two recumbant figures and open strapwork ornament to canopy.

South transept monuments, similar, of marble with recumbant figures on tomb chests with classical details to canopies, to Sir John Cotton d. 1689 and to Sir John Cotton and his wife d. 1620.

Wall monument to Sir John Cotton d. 1712 of white marble with two putti by Thomas Aday.

Memorial stained glass windows C15.