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St Michael

St Michael

Norton Little Green

Suffolk

TL 96 NE HUNSTON 2/82 Church of St Michael 15.11.54 -- II* Parish church, Medieval, restored early C19 and 1882.

Architectural Features

A number of mid C13 features

the fabric of nave and chancel may be largely of C12 or earlier. (Reset low in the chancel wall is a C12 window head with bands of shallow decoration).

C13 east window: triple lancets recessed within a chamfered outer arch, and contemporary angle buttresses at the eastern corners

3 C13 windows in south wall of chancel and 2 in north wall: lancets, with inner mask-stopped hoodmoulds.

The south chancel doorway (blocked) has round arches one above the other (the upper one glazed with cusping), and with C13 hoodmould - possibly a late C13 remodelling of an earlier doorway.

The north doorway is of C13, and its hoodmould links with the adjacent window.

Late C13 transept:- a triple-lancet gable window.

A good late C13 doorway in the west wall is hoodmoulded and shafted.

Two C13 lancets in the east wall: between them is an early c14 image niche, the jambs enriched with large and complex dog-teeth: the hoodmould is also enriched.

A wide arch leading from the nave rises from corbels with carved capitals.

Wide chancel arch, much restored early Cl9 but with circular banded shafts and foliated capitals of C13 origin.

Plain C13 doorways in south and north have walls (the latter blocked).

A C13 lancet in the south wall is blocked by a marble slab recording, in interesting detail, the endowment of Mrs Mary Page A simple unbuttressed tower with cusped Y-traceried windows was added in late Two windows in north wall, of C14

each has one altered widely- splayed jamb, no doubt from the preceding Norman windows.

A further square- headed C15 window in south wall.

A 6-bay hammerbeam roof, of unusually crude workmanship, and probably by a local C15 carpenter: the hammerbeams project only slightly and the posts are in the form of arch braces.

Two small C17 wall tablets in the transept and another in the nave.

3 painted hatchments.