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St Mary

St Mary

West Suffolk

Suffolk

C15, extensively restored circa 1878 by the Rev. E.R. Benyon.

Architectural Features

3 restored windows with reticulated tracery on south side of nave: 2 3-light C14 windows on north side with remains of crown glass,

one C13 lancet window with deep inner splay.

C14 windows to chancel: 4-light east window with reticulated tracery.

C15 south porch, with renewed timber roof: steep pitch, plaintiles: diagonal buttresses: knapped flint to side walls.

Simple C14 south doorway, similar to the priest's door in chancel.

The north doorway is the oldest surviving feature of the building: C11, with a plain tympanum, small volutes on the capitals and a heavy roll- moulding to arch.

A similar west window to the 2nd stage has fragments of medieval glass in the top of the lights.

6 bells: the 15 cwt. tenor and the 2nd bell both dated 1631

the 3rd and 4th dated 1629

the 5th 1674, and the treble cast in 1849.

C14 chancel arch, and an elaborate angle piscina with credence shelf of the same date, crocketted and finialled.

Memorial stained glass windows of circa 1880.

8 traceried and painted panels from the lower part of the rood screen, removed during C19 restoration, are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum