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St Peter

St Peter

Sicklesmere

Suffolk

Old plain-tiled roofs: a small pitched dormer on each side of the nave roof, and Victorian ornamental ridge-tiles.

Architectural Features

Simple Norman south doorway, and a C12 north doorway, with keeled roll-moulding and one order of shafts with volute capitals, incorporated into a north aisle in Victorian Romanesque style.

A small plain Norman window has also been reused at the east end of this aisle.

Early C13 chancel.

Unbuttressed C14 tower in 3 stages: plain base

shields at the intersections, and curious lozenge- shaped carved bosses added later.

A feature of the church are the numerous small roundels of engraved C16/C17 Flemish glass in the nave and chancel windows, about 75 in all, set into brightly-coloured surrounds of C19 stained glass.

Various memorial tablets on the walls, mainly to the Oakes family

the marble monument to Elizabeth Frances Oakes, d. 1811, by John Bacon Jnr. shows a draped female figure kneeling beside a sarcophagus.