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St Mary

St Mary

Hoo

Suffolk

A Parish Church, formerly the nave of the Priory Church of Augustinian Canons, founded in the C12.

Architectural Features

The tower is C14 in origin, the south porch is an addition of c.1685, and the building was repaired in c.1789.

The south porch of c.1685, located at the west end of the nave, is of English bond brick with a central round-arched doorway containing a door of 6 panels.

The south elevation of the nave to the east (right) of the porch has two C13 windows with intersecting Y-tracery.

Between the two windows is a buttress with stone dressings and 2 offsets below the upper of which is a slightly angled sundial bearing the date 1608.

The latter was built in c.1789 and incorporates a re-set C14 window of 3 lights with intersections, glazing bars and tracery with cinquefoil heads and daggers above.

INTERIOR: from the porch, a C12 doorway leads to the nave, and on the north side of the nave, a similar opposing doorway (blocked) was discovered in 1994.

The tower arch is slender with reused, decorated Norman stone.

Fragments of memorials to the Naunton family remain.

A C14 brass to Sir John Wingfield

a C15 brass to Sir Thomas Wingfield restored to the Church are not in situ, but are mounted on the walls.

Further C17 memorials to the Wingfield and Naunton families are at the east end.

The altar table is said to be C17 in origin.

The early-C19 pulpit has a fluted frieze and the nave box pews are of the same date.