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All Saints

Wetheringsett

Suffolk

Medieval, restored 1850's.

Architectural Features

Good C15 square tower: 4-stage angle buttresses with chequer flushwork, the 4 against the west corner containing empty cusped image niches.

C13 4-bay aisles with much-renewed 3-light Perpendicular-style windows

south aisle has C14 west window with reticulated tracery.

Both aisles retain C13 doorways, each with one order of colonnettes and a moulded 2-centred arch.

South doorway has repaired medieval door.

C15 porch, faced in knapped flint

Late C15 clerestorey with a range of 8 closely-set 3-light windows with buttresses between

C13 4-bay arcades and chancel arch.

Aisle roofs probably C15 but considerably restored.

Much renewed C13 triple sedilia has enriched trefoil arches and Purbeck marble shafts

In vestry, much mutilated remains of an unusual double angle piscina with leaf ornament, probably C13.

Octagonal font bowl, said to be of c.1660, the panels simply carved, mainly with shields.

Older base, perhaps C13, with 8 engaged shafts.

Poppyhead benches, some with C15 ends, the majority C19.

2 C15 misericords in sanctuary.

Several C17-C18 ledger slabs, especially to members of the Sheppard family.