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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Wangford

Suffolk

Mid C15 nave, north aisle and north porch

Architectural Features

pantiled roof to nave, plaintiled roofs to chancel and vestry, all with crest tiles.

C14 moulded arch to nave doorway.

4-bay C15 nave roof: arched- braced embattled tie beams alternate with high collars

3-bay C15 aisle roof.

Ornate 4-bay chancel roof with arched-bracing and angels at the foot of each wallpost.

C15 octagonal font with a quatrefoil panel to each face of the bowl.

Fine reading desk and pulpit with much elaborate inlaid work: these were orignally part of one C17 structure at Henham Hall.

The chancel has good choirstalls and elaborately-carved stone reredos, piscina and sedilia, all of 1875.

In the aisle are wall monuments to Sir John Rous and John Rous

on the south nave wall are monuments to John, First Earl of Stradbroke by Behnes, and to John Rous : a rococo cartouche against an obelisk, with 3 winged cherubs beneath.

Several windows with late C19 stained glass.