St Botolph

String course below the parapet with central gargoyle.

Roman bricks and tiling in fabric of wall.

C14 plank door with nailhead decoration

central, large, door handle of crescent shape with highly domed plate which Munro Cautley dates as C13 Nave: roof of 5 bays.

The rectangular wall posts spring from wooden angel corbels of C17 date with spread wings and praying hands.

These posts also terminate in angels, here holding_shields, and those adjacent to the west wall and the chancel arch face along the length of the church.

Octagonal C17 pulpit with arched panels to centre and decorated panels above and below, and projecting reading desk above dentiled cornice supported on scroll-brackets.

The font is octagonal, C19 stem with blind traceried panels.

The seminal “Guide to Suffolk Churches” (Mortlock, D.P: Cambridge, The Lutterworth Press, 2009 revision ISBN 978 0 7188 3076 2) informs us that the font is 15th century with some 19th century additions.

© Basher Eyre

The eight side-panels show the symbols of the evangelists and angels bearing crowns which are in a similar style to those wooden angel bosses in the roof.

The heads appear to have been re-cut in the C17.

In the south wall is a recess with a square, chamfered surround, formerly containing a door, behind which is a round-arched recess with a quatrefoil piscina bowl to the bottom which may have been carved at a later date.

The angels here have separated feathers to the wings, and appear to be of late C15 or early C16.

Chest with lattice ironwork to lid and sides with much nailhead decoration and complicated locking mechanism with 3 tongues, cross bar and padlock ring, probably of C16 date.