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St Mary

St Mary

Mid Suffolk

Suffolk

Mediaeval, mainly C14

Architectural Features

The plain round-arched south aoor represents the C12 core of the building

most features are of C14.

Good and quite complete mid C14 south porch of timber on a mid C20 brick plinth: a heavy 2-centred doorway with ogee sidelights and cusped bargeboards

mullioned windows have different tracery in the head on either side, and the tie-beam and wall-plates have typical C14 mouldings.

The tower is basically mid C14, with a 2-light west window with good tracery and grotesque corbels, and a quatrefoil sanctus bell window.

The upper stage of the cower was remodelled or rebuilt c.1500

the battlemented parapets have flushwork panels with traceried heads and the belfry windows have tracery of this date, with grotesque gargoyles above.

C.1500, the nave was re-roofed in 3 bays

Two opposing nave windows are of stuccoed brick with heavy hoodmoulds and different early C16 tracery.

The early C16 south priest's door has graffiti on a jamb.

Two sections of a well-carved C14 or C15 roodscreen, one converted to choirstalls, the other is in the tower.

A fine C15 font of limestone, the octagonal bowl has angels with shields and roses, further supporting angels beneath, and lions at the angles of the stem.

An early C17 octagonal pulpit has arcaded panels.

A north nave window has in stained glass the original arms of De Bohun

other windows have more fragmentary mediaeval glass.

Some good late C19 stained glass in the chancel and the cower.

A marble floorslab in the chancel of 1682 and two others of C18.