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All Saints

All Saints

Great Glemham

Suffolk

Slated roof to nave and chancel, lead roof to south aisle, plaintiles with crest tiles to porch.

Architectural Features

C15 square tower: 4 stages, west face with diagonal buttresses with flushwork decoration, the north west buttress with an empty niche in the lower stage

below parapet a string course with gargoyles to each face and smaller stone carvings.

Above the west window is an empty niche, trefoil- headed, square hoodmould with carved shields in spandrels.

One-armed clock face to south face of tower C15 nave, 2 renewed windows in north wall.

C15 porch: flushwork to buttresses and plinth

original wooden roof with carved wall plates.

C15 south aisle, pulled down and rebuilt in 1850's.

Chancel with one broad lancet window and one Y traceried window to north and south (all much renewed but suggesting an early C14 date)

south wall with early C16 Priest's doorway in brick

C15 3-light east window.

Very fine 8 bay arch-braced nave roof, re-framed in C19 but largely original: carved wall plates, carved angels (renewed) to bases of wall plates, bosses to the main intersections with pendant bosses along ridge

Late C15 octagonal font carved with the Seven Sacraments, the panels having a rayed background

square stem and octagonal base, both carved.

Plain C13 piscina and a dropped seat sedilia in south chancel wall.

Fragments of old stained glass in each chancel window.

Graded I for surviving medieval work.