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St Petronilla

St Petronilla

Mickley Green

Suffolk

Mediaeval, restored 1869.

Architectural Features

Square chancel arch piers late C11 or C12, with roll-moulded jambs

Late C13 2-light windows with quatrefoil heads in the nave.

Mid C14 alterations include: Y-traceried 2- light windows in nave and chancel and 3-light east window (nave windows on both sides have piscina bowls cut into the dropped cill, and on the south side integral steps up to the rood loft)

The gabled south porch almost rebuilt early C20, but retaining lower part of C14 flint rubble walling with limestone quoins

C15 tower with moulded west doorway, and 3-light traceried window above flanked by cinquefoiled niches.

The upper level much altered, possibly in 1582 (date scratched on S.E. Buttress) with 2-light belfry openings.

C19 alterations include reconstruction of nave roof of hammerbeam type, and addition of gabled vestry against the C14 north doorway

the C19 pulpit incorporates 2 early C17 arcaded panels with marquetry inlay.

Some fragments of assorted mediaeval stained glass reset in roundels in south chancel window.

Wall tablets in chancel to: Johannes Ryley and General Sir Francis Hammond In the chancel, 2 tomb-slabs of Purbeck marble, possibly of C14 priests, and 6 C18 floorslabs of black marble.