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All Saints

All Saints

West Suffolk

Suffolk

Porch C15, in black knapped flint, with a base of flushwork panels.

Architectural Features

Norman south doorway with 2 orders of shafts, the 2 outer shafts with zig-zag decoration, that on the right also with 3 intervening decorated bands.

The church was extensively restored in 1863 , when both nave and chancel roofs were replaced, as well as the pulpit, lectern and benches.

TL9174 : All Saints, Honington - Font

A very fine octagonal C14 font has delicate traceried panels around shaft and bowl, and a Crucifixion on the 8th side.

TL9174 : All Saints, Honington - Font

© John Salmon

Plain narrow Norman chancel arch: imposts on nook shafts.

On the south side of chancel, a C14 piscina with cusped ogee head.

To the left of the priest's door, the brass of George Duke, 1594.

On the north side, a square recess, and 2 fine monuments: one to Robert Rushbrook, 1753, the other to 2 of his daughters.

Late C17 communion rails with twisted balusters.

4 C15 benches, with poppy-heads and animals on the ends, reused as choir stalls.

Tower, C14, small, square and unbuttressed, in 3 stages, with a plain embattled parapet faced in black knapped flint.

A stair turret in Tudor red. brick is built out on the south side: 2 paired slit windows, conical roof.

C16 studded plank door to stair turret.

Original late C15/early C16 bell-frame in heavy timberwork with arched intersecting braces.