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All Saints

All Saints

Blyford

Suffolk

Medieval, restored 1875 and 1924.

Architectural Features

C15 tower: square, with 3-stage diagonal buttresses to the west and a crenellated parapet

C12 nave with good original north and south doorways.

The north doorway has 2 orders of colonettes, the outer order with spiral decoration, carved cushion capitals and 3 orders to the arch, 2 with chevrons and the central one roll-moulded.

The north and south nave each have 2 C15 2-light square-headed windows, largely original.

Good C15 porch of knapped flint with flushwork panels to the facade

The entrance arch and hoodmoula are enriched with fleurons, and there are carved stone shields in the spandrels

Late C13 chancel: 2 2-light windows with Y-tracery ana one lancet window

In the south sanctuary is a late C13 angle piscina with trefoil arch and a drop-sill sedilia.

TM4276 : All Saints, Blyford - Font

Plain octagonal font on a stem with 8 colonnettes, probably C13.

TM4276 : All Saints, Blyford - Font

© John Salmon

Good C16 holy table.