Architectural Features
The north and south nave doorways C12, with chevron- and roll-moulded round arch, moulded imposts, engaged shafts with cushion capitals and moulded bases.
The chancel has mid C13 work: lancets (now blocked) in side walls, south doorway, chancel arch with polygonal jambs and moulded capital and base, a double piscina now hidden behind the tomb of Elizabeth Drury.
Another C13 piscina in the nave to left of chancel arch.
In the chancel a fine C14 canopied recess with flanking pilasters
within it is the effigy of a C13 knight, said to be of the Fitz Eustace family.
Three 2-light windows inserted into chancel mid-C14.
Vestry probably added C15
The tower, nave and south porch all built early C16.
Fine 9-bay nave roof, probably not finished before 1550, heavily restored 1857
principal rafters with arch- braced high collars and king posts, alternate trusses having arch-braced hammer beams carved as angels, with traceried spandrels
many members have folded-leaf carving.
The east window renewed early C16
Beside the tower arch a C13 wall-painting of a female figure
Font with plain square bowl, probably C12
A church is documented to have stood on this site since at least from 1086. The chancel dates from around 1300 and the tower was completed in 1510 but the church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174198 as we see it today was substantially rebuilt during the 16th century, retaining the Norman north > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174217 and south doorways. The church is of note because of the many monuments it houses, most commemorating members of the Drury family, the major landowners in the area. The oldest, dating from 1271, is the effigy of a knight > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174302. It commemorates Sir Eustace Fitz-Eustace, lord of the manor of Hawstead. Sir Robert Drury's monument > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174307 adjoins it on the north side of the sanctuary, and on the opposite wall is his daughter > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174315 Elizabeth, d 1510, aged 14. Sir Thomas Cullum's memorial (1664) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174322 can be seen to the west of it. The ceilured roof above > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174241 is painted with Marian monograms. Two panels of C17 Flemish glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174255 have been reset into one of the nave north windows. All other stained glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174263 dates from the 19th and early 20th century. Most of the windows were designed by Henry Holiday and produced for Powell & Sons. Medieval survivals include the original hammerbeam roof, adorned with carved angels, in the nave and fragments of a mural on the west wall. A rare survival can be found affixed to the chancel screen - it is a sanctus bell stirrup that still contains the (possibly) original bell > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174247. The baptismal font dates from the 13th century.
C15 rood screen with two sidelights on each side, and tracery at upper level
Restored early C16 poppyhead stalls with traceried fronts.
Four simple C16 poppyhead elm pews.
four have reused C16 animal-heads.
A C17 family pew, oak-panelled with marquetry.
Late C17 altar rails and gates now placed across the tower-arch.
In a north nave window some stained glass of C15
The east window and others have good C19 stained glass commemorating the Cullum family.
Fine wall monuments and tablets in the chancel, including to:- Sir Robert Drury, d. 1624, by Nicholas Stone
A church is documented to have stood on this site since at least from 1086. The chancel dates from around 1300 and the tower was completed in 1510 but the church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174198 as we see it today was substantially rebuilt during the 16th century, retaining the Norman north > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174217 and south doorways. The church is of note because of the many monuments it houses, most commemorating members of the Drury family, the major landowners in the area. The oldest, dating from 1271, is the effigy of a knight > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174302. It commemorates Sir Eustace Fitz-Eustace, lord of the manor of Hawstead. Sir Robert Drury's monument > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174307 adjoins it on the north side of the sanctuary, and on the opposite wall is his daughter > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174315 Elizabeth, d 1510, aged 14. Sir Thomas Cullum's memorial (1664) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174322 can be seen to the west of it. The ceilured roof above > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174241 is painted with Marian monograms. Two panels of C17 Flemish glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174255 have been reset into one of the nave north windows. All other stained glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174263 dates from the 19th and early 20th century. Most of the windows were designed by Henry Holiday and produced for Powell & Sons. Medieval survivals include the original hammerbeam roof, adorned with carved angels, in the nave and fragments of a mural on the west wall. A rare survival can be found affixed to the chancel screen - it is a sanctus bell stirrup that still contains the (possibly) original bell > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174247. The baptismal font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2174328 dates from the 13th century.
Elizabeth Drury, d. 1610
Sir Thomas Cullum, d. 1664, by D. Nacinto (outsize, in painted plaster)
In the nave the altar tomb of Sir William Drury, d. 1557.
Several black marble floor slabs of late C17 to early C19 in nave and chancel, mainly to the Cullum family.