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St George

St George

Mid Suffolk

Suffolk

C14, largely refenestrated in C15, restored 1900.

Architectural Features

3 stage square west tower, a 2-light window in lower stage to west, trefoiled ogee headed lights, a square head with hoodmould, second stage has quatrefoil openings, string course to belfry with tall 2-light openings to south and west as in lower stage without hoodmould, to north and east ogee vesica openings, cornice with gargoyles to embattled parapet with restored chequerwork, 3 stage diagonal buttresses to west and straight buttresses to east, double plinth, chequerwork.

Nave to south has a C14 pointed entrance arch to west of centre with complex double moulding, mask stopped hoodmould, flanking large 2-light Perpendicular windows, segmental pointed arched heads with hoodmoulds, 2 stage buttresses.

C15 clerestorey presaging aisles that were never built or simply for better light, four 2-light windows unrelated to spacing below, cusped ogee lights, traceried segmental pointed arched heads with hoodmoulds.

Restored late C14 timber south porch is set off centre to south entrance, pointed outer arch with a double wave moulding, renewed timber panelling, gable with C19 traceried bargeboards, ridge cross, returns have lower rendering, renewed cusped 2-light windows.

Chancel east end restored C14 pointed arched 3-light window, trefoiled ogee headed lights, transitional curvilinear/rectilinear tracery, 2 stage diagonal buttresses with chequerwork in plinth, ridge cross.

Interior: C14 pointed chancel arch, inner hollow and outer quirked wave mouldings, responds have engaged shafts, moulded ring capitals with Tudor flower and rose ornament, moulded bases.

Restored C15 8-bay nave roof, alternating single hammerbeam and arch braced collar trusses, moulded arched braces from hammer posts to short brattished hammer beams, moulded arched braces to high cambered collars, kingposts to moulded ridge piece, moulded butt purlins and principals, ashlaring concealed by double brattished and moulded panels

C14 piscina in chancel to south with a cusped ogee head.

Richly carved late C14 chancel screen dado has been reset in position

TM0467 : Wyverstone, St. George's Church: Medieval screen dado with carved, not painted scenes

carved scenes in cusped ogee headed panels with rectilinear traceried heads, from north to south: St. Gabriel, Annunciation, Nativity, Visit of Magi, St. Gregory's Mass, Visitation, a quatrefoil frieze below

TM0467 : Wyverstone, St. George's Church: Medieval screen dado with carved, not painted scenes

© Michael Garlick

south section missing and replaced by early C17 panelling with acanthus and guilloche ornamented upper section.

TM0467 : Wyverstone, St. George's Church: Perpendicular Period octagonal font

Early C15 octagonal font on steps, cusped traceried stem, Tudor flowers on underside of bowl with 4 quatrefoil traceried faces with Tudor flowers, 4 cusped circle faces with shields of arms, Tudor flower cornice

TM0467 : Wyverstone, St. George's Church: Perpendicular Period octagonal font

© Michael Garlick

mid C17 open font cover, moulded base, central turned post with a finial, 8 curved side pieces with holes for lifting ropes.

Towards west end of nave are C15

C16 benches with poppyhead ends, several have C17 backs with rounded poppyheads, another has an end with a scrolled lozenge at head with '1616 TH.WM' inscribed.

Early C16 semi-octagonal pulpit with linenfold panelling.

Early to mid C17 turned communion rails in 5 sections with capped standards.

A medieval iron bound chest, rounded head, restored sides, triple locks.

Simple late C18, C19 and early C20 marble tablets on chancel walls include memorials to members of Steggall Family with Latin inscriptions.

Royal Arms of William and Mary in nave to west, carved elm, and of George III in nave to north, painted panel dated 1812.

Fragments of early glass in nave north windows including head of Jesus to north west, C19 east window.