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St Gregory

St Gregory

Hemingstone

Suffolk

HEMINGSTONE CHURCH LANE TM 15 SW 6/119 Church of St Gregory 9.12.55 - I Parish church, Medieval with main features of mid C14

Architectural Features

Mid C14 north

south moulded doorways to nave The north door is probably of early C16.

The tower doorway has a C14 iron-bound door.

3 mid C14 traceried windows, one retains good original glass in the tracery.

Plain cusped piscina of C14/C15.

Tower built or remodelled in early C16: flushed flintwork, embattled parapets, traceried belfry openings and large west window.

Early c16 windows in side walls of nave and chancel, those on the north with much C18 crown glass.

Restored C16 east window.

North porch of c.1530 in red brick with diaper patterning in burnt headers

Continuous roof of c.1500 over nave and chancel, of canted construction, without tiebeams

The southern half of the early C16 roodscreen survives up to dado level.

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Late C14 octagonal limestone font: the stem is plain, but the bowl intricately carved with crocketed gables and tracery.

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A small room to north of chancel was added c.1600, now a vestry but of uncertain original purpose: red brick with fragments of original plaster, plain chamfered openings, side purlin roof.