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Sproughton

Suffolk

Early C14, later Medieval, restored 1863-68 by Frederick Barnes of Ipswich and 1870 and 1884.

Architectural Features

Flint with stone dressings, glacial boulders in plinth and footings, tile roof.

South doorway, early C14, 2 orders of filleted shafts with flat bases and moulded capitals, the arch in 3 orders of rolls, with fillets or keel.

South porch mainly C19 with diagonal buttresses, 3 centre arched entrance, 2 orders of shafts to each side, on early C14 bases.

2 2-light Y-tracery windows, early C14, restored.

Interior: 3 bay north and south arcades, early C14, the western responds rebuilt C19.

6 bay arch braced hammer beam roof, restored 1867-8, each alternate bay with angels, moulded cornice, collars and purlins.

Double piscina with traceried head divided by a central Y-shaft, octofoil drain to left, and beneath canopy with worn figure stops.

C19 canted roof retaining medieval moulded cornice.

Benches in chancel incorporate C15 poppyhead benchends.

Octagonal font, C15, the panels mostly recut, with symbols of the Passion.

Monuments: to Mrs Bull, died 1634.

A kneeling figure facing east supported by angels to each side holding drapes of canopy, contained within aedicule.

The angels are supported on pendant bosses, beneath wnich an inscribe apron with putto's head beneath To Edmund Beeston, died 1713, Mary his wife, d. 1724 and children.

To Revd Joseph Waite, Rector of the Parish in 1655.

Rectangular marble monument with moulded cornice above eared architrave, to side of which a husked vertical moulding.