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St Mary

St Mary

Mid Suffolk

Suffolk

FLOWTON TM 04 NE 6/110 Church of St. Mary 9.12.55 - I Church, mediaeval.

Architectural Features

An unusually complete example of an early C14 parish church, with a little alteration of later C14

Both nave and chancel have good and complete early C14 roofs

The south porch has a moulded arched Oak doorway of early C14

was reroofed in C17 and repaired in red brick in C20.

flanking the C14 west window are late C14/C15 image niches, with just the stools remaining.

A gallery in the tower is C14/C15, extended past the tower arch in C18.

From the gallery rises a rare C14/C15 timber stair with triangular block treads. the tower top stage was demolished in C18 and a pyramid roof constructed behind brick parapets partly from the original bellframe (the remainder was adapted for a single bell).

Large east window of later C14 with reticulated tracery.

Other C14 features includes shafted chancel arch, a plain piscina and a fragment of red abstract painting on the south nave wall.

C1500, a large 3-light window and rood loft stair turret were inserted both using red brick Octagonal C13 font with splayed bowl, each face with shallow arcading

C17 Oak cover with ramped scrolls.

In the chancel floor are ledger slabs of 1612 and 1649, in the nave are two more of 1643 and 1646.