St John Lateran
West Suffolk
Suffolk
Chancel has late C13 windows, 3- light in eastwall, 2 2-light in south wall.
Architectural Features
Hemegrave include: south porch, restored C19 in knapped flint with flushwork, with labelled arched doorway, south nave doorway similar but more ornate with angel finials, tall tower arch.
Early C16 alterations for Sir Thos.
A segmental brick rood-stair turret in south wall perhaps C15.
South door C15, plain.
Late C13 wall paintings of S.S. Catherine and Margaret on south chancel window reveal.
Early C15 painted inscription above south door in porch.
Some fragments of C16 glass in aisle windows.
Canopied monument to Margaret, Countess of Bath, with her husband, John Bourchier, beside her, and below her first husband Sir Thos.
An alabaster mural monument to Lord Darcy, also in the chapel.
In the chancel is a table tomb to John Bourchier, 1556, who was Lord Fitzwarren.
The monuments have much original colour and almost fill the chancel and chapel.
For details of church and monuments, John Gage, History of Suffolk, Thingoe Hundred, 1838.