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St Mary at Stoke

St Mary At Stoke

Ipswich

Suffolk

Probably C14 NW tower

Architectural Features

C15 N aisle

Plan of nave and chancel, N aisle (the former C15 nave) and NE chapel, N and S transepts, NE vestry roofed parallel to the N transept, NW tower, SW porch.

Knapped flint and freestone with slate roofs and pierced C19 ridge tiles to the nave and chancel, brick parapet to tower.

Unbuttressed W tower with a C19 moulded W doorway below a 2-light Tudor-arched W window

There is flushwork blind arcading above the doorway which has a square-headed frame and carved spandrels.

The N aisle preserves a very fine hammerbeam roof with 2 tiers of purlins, the hammerbeams carved with figures holding shields depicting the symbols of the passion.

An engraving of 1854 shows that the heads of the figures were lost and the existing heads are later replacements.

The braces on wooden posts on carved stone corbels.

C19 encaustic tiles to the chancel.

The backs of the 2nd row are decorated with blind tracery. c. early C20 timber drum pulpit on a low wineglass stem, the sides carved with blind tracery.

C19 stone font with an octagonal bowl with carved sides and a brattished cornice on an octagonal stem and plinth.

Stained glass includes an 1871 E window to the designs of Clayton and Bell and an E window in the N aisle of 1864, to the designs of P R Burrell.

Heaton, Butler and Bayne window in the nave signed with a memorial date of 1905.

A fine C14-C15 church with an outstanding hammerbeam roof in the N aisle (formerly the nave).

The C19 rebuilding is mostly by Butterfield and there are good fittings and stained glass.