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St Michael

St Michael

Woolverstone

Suffolk

C15 tower, C16 porch.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roofs.

2-light Tudor-arched belfry opening.

String course with fleurons, angle gargoyles, battlement with crocketed pinnacles.

Tudor-arched entrance under hoodmould.

Foundation stone set in buttresses on north side of chancel reads: 'Laid by Hugh Berners Captain RN to the Glory of God Feast of St Michael and All Angels 1888'.

Interior: Porch has brattished wall plates, cambered moulded tie beams on short posts on carved leaf corbels with arch braces with ornamented spandrels.

C15 octagonal font on base with supporting lions has panels with alternating lions and angels.

C19 fittings include pulpit, rood screen and canopied stone sedilia by Thomas Earp.

Vestry contains wall monument with broken segmen- tal pediment with hatchment on Corinthian columns containing plaque with Latin inscription to Phillip Bacon of Shrubland d. 1635.