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St Mary

St Mary

Old Newton

Suffolk

Parish church, mainly mid C14.

Architectural Features

The tower has plain early or mid C14 openings: pointed west doorway and Y-traceried belfry windows.

The nave has good traceried 2-light mid C14 windows of varied forms, some with carved corbels

The chancel side windows were once similar: they were given iron mullions in a Gothick design in late C18, retaining the C14 hood moulds.

Late C14 south porch, the doorway with moulded piers and a crocketed ogee-headed image niche above.

The east window is of C14 origin, with inner shafts

has a squat segmental-pointed head and straight mullions which must be C16/C17 alterations.

On either side of the window are C14 image niches with pinnacles and crockets.

Triple mid C14 sedilia and linked piscina, with 4 similar cusped ogee-heads.

The vestry has a C14 doorway but appears largely rebuilt.

C14 chancel arch has moulded capitals and to the south is a window with inner shafts and a dropped cill.

The chancel roof was rebuilt in butt-purlin form in C17.

TM0562 : Old Newton: St. Mary's Church: The font (west aspect detail)

Good C15 font with emblems of the evangelists around the octagonal bowl, and lions and wild men at the stem.

TM0562 : Old Newton: St. Mary's Church: The font (west aspect detail)

© Michael Garlick

Plain panelled C17 pulpit.

Hatchment of George II.

Several windows have large fragments of C14 stained glass.