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All Saints

All Saints

West Suffolk

Suffolk

Late C13, C14 and later

Architectural Features

South aisle of same date, late C13, with similar buttresses, crenellations, and restored windows

Battlemented clerestory to nave in Tudor brick, with 7 2-light windows with intersecting tracery, trefoil-headed lights, and hood-moulds.

3-light east window of c.1300: 3 stepped lancets under one arch

Narrow C14 tower

The interior of the nave has a C14 arcade in 4 bays to each aisle: octagonal piers with their moulded bases raised on high, square blocks of brickwork

Fine C15 hammer-beam roof, integrated with the clerestory

between each pair of clerestory windows is a raised pilaster with a canopied capital on which rests a carved and painted figure supporting the arched brace of a hammer beam

the hammer-beams themselves are carved and painted recumbent figures of kings and musicians with ermine collars, holding musical instruments, books, etc. A deep cornice in 2 tiers with carving, colouring and brattishing.

The seating, font and pulpit are all Victorian.

Behind the pulpit, the stairs to the rood-loft, the upper part open

carved bosses at the intersection of the main timbers.

Fine medieval door to the tower stairs at the back of the south aisle, with original interlaced ironwork and hinge

a piscina with trefoil head to niche, and a memorial east window with stained glass by Kempe, 1905.

Memorial stained glass of 1890 in the east window: piscina with trefoil-headed niche as in south aisle

On the north wall, a marble monument to Thomas Raymond , surmounted by a broken pediment, with a coat of arms in high relief in the centre: he was the first keeper of state papers to Charles II.