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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Mid Suffolk

Suffolk

Parish church, Medieval.

Architectural Features

C13 features: good south doorway with 3 orders of roll moulding, keeled or filleted, twin attached shafts with bell capitals.

Above the doorway is a C13 circular window, and a weathering for an early porch.

Much early C14 rebuilding: tower with shallow clasping buttresses, gabled at the head with grotesque corbels.

C14 north doorways in nave and chancel, and to vestry.

Later C14 wide chancel arch: The aisles have large traceried early C15 windows.

In the east wall of both aisles are well carved but mutilated image niches

A rood loft stair is in the south wall, indicating a former parclose screen linking with the main rood screen Later C15 tall windows in chancel.

Fine C15 clerestory: embattled parapets with extensive flushwork incorporating a wide variety of emblems.

A double- hammerbeam nave roof in 10 bays: 3 tiers of restored angels at each truss and a frieze of angels and crowns above a moulded cornice.

Chancel roof of C15, boarded with trefoil coving, moulded ribs and cornice and foliate bosses.

Aisle roofs with arch-braced principals also C15.

South porch added c.1476: the south wall is entirely of freestone with traceried panels and an image niche.

The sacristy was added in C15 to north of chancel, and formerly had a chamber above: the upper floor structure was removed in C19.

Fine mid C14 octagonal font: each face of the bowl has a cusped ogee-headed arch with buttresses rising from grotesque corbels, and the stem is also traceried with slender buttresses.

A C15 slab in the nave floor with brass sinkings for three figures, and another with single brass sinking.

Ten C17/C18 marble slabs in chancel floor, some with achievements.

C17 octagonal pulpit with arcaded panels.

Turned altar rails of late C17.

Some restored C16 poppyhead benches in south aisle.