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All Saints

All Saints

Hacheston

Suffolk

Medieval, restored mid and late C19.

Architectural Features

C14 tower: 2 diagonal buttresses with niches at base, flat parapet

North nave with 2 C15 square-headed 2-light windows

C15 porch (blocked), C12 north doorway.

Late C15/early C16 4-bay south aisle: 3-light windows, doorway to west bay.

Part of chancel has C12 core, extended to east in late C13 or early C14

to the north one lancet window and one C15 square-headed 2-light window, to the south 2 similar square-headed windows and Priest's doorway

C15 3-light east window.

Good C15 6-bay single hammerbeam nave roof with moulded wall plate and carved cornice, the wall posts and their braces missing on the south side

4-bay aisle roof with carved wall posts and bosses.

C15 octagonal font, C17 cover

poppyhead benches in nave and aisle: about half are C15, the remainder C19 copies

in north west nave is part of the dado of the C15 rood screen comprising 10 painted panels (in poor condition)

Early C17 pulpit.

On south wall of aisle is a late C14 fragment of an alabaster carving showing the Incredulity of St. Thomas.

South chancel with C13 angle piscina and sedilia

one hatchment on north chancel wall.

Medieval font. For an exterior view and information about this church go to: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2093822.

Graded I for surviving medieval work.

Medieval font. For an exterior view and information about this church go to: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2093822.

© Evelyn Simak