All Saints

string courses, and 4 stage angle buttresses, the south-west buttress with plaque inscribed with the names of the vicar and 2 church wardens, and the date 1656.

Moulded eaves with projecting corner gargoyles and battlements with ornate pinnacles.

C14 north aisle remodelled in mid C15.

Pointed doorway to left with continuous moulded surround, C16 plank door, hood mould and label stop head to left.

Battlemented mid C15 clerestory above with 5 windows each with pointed head, 2 semi-circular headed lights, panel tracery and hood mould.

C15 chancel with plinth and 2 pointed windows in north side, each with 3 pointed cusped lights, panel tracery and hood mould.

2 pointed windows above, each with 3 pointed cusped lights, panel tracery and hood mould, C14 south aisle remodelled in the mid C15.

Gabled C15 brick patched porch with pointed south doorway with moulded head, slender responds with moulded imposts and hood mould with head label stops.

Interior flanking stone benches and C14 doorway with pointed head, richly moulded continuous surround, hood mould and head label stops.

Panelled studded plank door with smaller doorway within with segmental head and inscription: 'God Save the King 1633'.

C15 clerestory identical to that on the north side.

Tall mid C14 interior tower arch with pointed, double chamfered head and triple responds.

South-west corner of tower with C14 ogee headed doorway with continuously moulded surround and plank door.

Mid C14, 5 bay north and south arcades, with pointed, double chamfered heads, octagonal piers, polygonal responds and moulded capitals.

C15 north and south aisle parclose screens, each side of which have 5 ogee headed ornate openwork, panel traceried, sections.

C14 pointed chancel arch with double chamfered head and polygonal responds with moulded capitals.

C15 screen with 5 openwork traceried sections with crocketed and finialled ogee heads and painted lower blind panels.

Chancel with C14 cusped ogee headed piscina.

C15 pews with hinged doors with simple early panel tracery.

C15 brass eagle lectern of an East Anglian school with moulded, bulbous pedestal with 3 small lions at its foot.

Pulpit of 1615 related to that at Burgh le Marsh, with steps leading up to hexagonal pulpit with ornate bands of fretwork and stylised dragons

C15 octagonal font on a tall, panelled pedestal, the octagonal bowl supported by head and foliate motifs, and each side of the bowl with a shield set in a cusped arch.

C15 octagonal bowl supported by head and foliate motifs on a tall, panelled pedestal, each side of the bowl has a shield set in a cusped arch.

© Richard Croft

C16 altar table in south aisle.

C19 roofs re-using C15 timbers and medieval stone corbels and C15 south aisle roof.

Monuments include one of alabaster streaked with orange and pink and faded paint and gilding to Sir Valentine Browne, died 1600, and Elizabeth his wife

TF5061 : Sir Valentine Browne, memorial, Croft church

© J.Hannan-Briggs

the kneeling figures of Browne and his wife above, beneath a semi-circular arch with panelled soffit, flanking pilasters, bracketed key and cartouche above.

Another alabaster monument, streaked pink and grey, to John Browne, died 1614, and Cicely, his wife

TF5061 : Monument to John Browne and wives, Croft church

© J.Hannan-Briggs

both figures kneel in prayer beneath a semi-circular arch with panelled soffit, flanking pilasters and cartouche over.

Ashlar standing monument to William Bonde, died 1559, with high plinth with geometric patterning, flanking free standing columns, cartouche above with skull, coat of arms, rays of sunlight and a tiny bearded bust.

Late C13 or early C14 brass in floor of south aisle, with head and shoulders of knight with hands in prayer.

One of 4 or 5 of the earliest brasses in England.