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All Saints

All Saints

Mettingham

Suffolk

Medieval, restored 1898.

Architectural Features

Round tower, not later than C11

C15 west window, C15 belfry openings with missing tracery.

The lower part of the nave walls are probably C11: the north west angle is composed of field stones, and the steeply-pitched line of the original gable can be seen on the west return.

Good C12 north doorway with one order of colonnettes, an arch with 2 orders of chevrons and a hoodmould of semi-circular billets.

2 C15 north nave windows.

C14 south aisle with mainly C15 windows.

The porch is probably C14 but was partly rebuilt in C19

The chancel has a single C15 window to north and south (the south window blocked) but the fabric is of earlier date

C14 3-bay aisle arcade, the bay to the east of the chancel arch being lower.

C15 arched- braced nave roof with crenellated wallplate, mutilated carved corbels at the foot of each wallpost and fleuron bosses at the junction of purlins and principal rafters.

C15 arch-braced chancel roof with similar bosses.

Good C15 octagonal font, the bowl panels depicting lions alternating with angels bearing shields

The chancel stalls incorporate some C15 traceried woodwork and poppyhead ends.

On the nave north wall is a C17 pedimented tablet to the Gooch family.