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St Mary

St Mary

Stratford St Mary

Suffolk

C14 chancel with later alterations.

Architectural Features

C15 nave aisles.

C16 clerestory, northchancel chapel and porch, the latter dated 1532.

Tower C15-C16 largely rebuilt C19.

Plain tile chancel roof, rest concealed.

String course and gargoyles.

Offset diagonal buttresses with cusped ogee niches and embattled parapet with angle pinnacles and date shield to centre 1532 JS.

North aisle inscribed to donor: PRAYE FOR THE SOULLYS OF EDWARD MORS AND ALYS HIS WIFE AND ALL CRYTEN SOWLLYS ANNO DOMINI 1530.

Parclose screens incorporating some medieval fabric.

Medieval grave slab.

Black ledger slab to south chapel dated 1698 with hatchment of Nicolas Brage and another to Robert Clarke d. 1731.

Restored angel carvings to ridge and further wooden figures above capitals on which the roof posts are supported.

Thomas Mors, clothier, in his will of 1500 requested burial in the N aisle which he had built and left money for the clerestory.