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St Mary Magdalene

St Mary Magdalene

Sternfield

Suffolk

Roofs of nave, chancel and porch of plaintiles with crest tiles.

Architectural Features

Early C15 tower: square, unbuttressed, crenellated parapet

2 string courses to bell-chamber stage, the one immediately below the parapet with some carved heads

west face with one 2-light window (fragments of medieval glass) and one single-light window with square hood mould

below lower window is a carved stone shield bearing the de la Pole arms.

Nave probably C14: south wall with one late C19 3-light window in Perpendicular style, north wall with 2 2-light C15 windows with square hood moulds (one window largely original), blocked doorway.

C14 porch: moulded entrance arch on semi-circular responds, empty trefoil-headed niche above

Chancel rebuilt in 1764, considerably restored 1877: new windows, re-fashioned Priest's doorway, vestry added to north on site of C14 chapel

good C14 piscina with ballflower ornament set in north chancel external wall.

also of 1877 are the chancel arch, pulpit, organ chamber, nave benches, tiles and much glass.

Off the B1121 Church Hill

C14 octagonal font with quatrefoil to each face

Off the B1121 Church Hill

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some benches in chancel with re-used C15 traceried ends with carved arm rests

2 plain marble tablets on south chancel wall to Rev. Montagu North and Elizabeth North his wife Graded II* for surviving medieval work, notably porch and tower.