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St Mary

St Mary

Belstead

Suffolk

Medieval, C16, restored C19, 1980's.

Architectural Features

Square tower, C14, 3 stages with brick embattled parapet.

Scroll moulded hood with figure stops.

North wall, one blocked doorway with multiple mouldings, and hood mould with one figure stop.

2-light C14 window with curvilinear tracery, much restored C19.

C16 and later.

2 windows of C19 plain lights beneath C16 moulded brick 4-centre arched hoods.

Piscina with remains of elaborate canopy with ?lion and lamb to left and right and human figure above.

Base of C15 timber screen, the panels with blind cusped heads, in pairs, between moulded shafts, and with band of encircled trefoils at base, much original colour surviving, the panels depicting saints.

Jacobean 7 sided carved pulpit on stem.

Font C15, East Anglian school, octagonal bowl supported by angels, the panels alternately a rose and angel bearing shield

Monuments.

8 December 1653.

Veined marble entablature grey marble base and apron with winged cherub above scroll. (5) Floor brass, on stone.

3 figures of knight and 2 wives, thought to be John Goldingham d. 1518 and his 2 wives Jane and Thomasine.

Blank indent. (6) 5 back stone floor tablets c.1632-1693, members of the Blosse family. (7) Wall monument.

Flanked by monuments to his wife and daughters.