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St Michael and St Felix

St Michael And St Felix

Rumburgh

Suffolk

Parish church, originally built as the church of a Benedictine Priory, founded c.1065 from Hulme, Norfolk

Architectural Features

given in the later C12 to St. Mary's, York.

Unusually-proportioned C13 west tower, as wide as the nave, with low angle buttresses and a timber-framed and weatherboarded top stage with a hipped, plaintiled roof.

Early C16 south porch with early C19 Gothick exterior: ogee-headed doorway

Continuous mid C15 nave and chancel with 2-light traceried windows along the south side.

Fragments of old glass, and bullseye glass in the tops of the lights.

There were no original windows along the north wall, which was backed by the conventual buildings, but 2 2-light rectangular windows with diamond-leaded panes were inserted into the nave, probably C17.

Font, on a low octagonal base, with panelled shaft, replaced bowl and simple Jacobean cover with spike finial.

intricate carving to the tops of the lights.

A small, simply-panelled Jacobean pulpit dated 1637 on a single shaft with supporting scroll brackets.

In the north wall, a C13 doorway and a narrow squint with a grated watching-window above: these all related to the conventual buildings adjoining.