Architectural Features
Tower of flint and rubble, stone dressings, nave and chancel rendered, tile roofs.
Late C15 square tower, 3 stages with embattled parapet, diagonal buttresses, stair turret against south wall.
Medieval door.
2 restored early C14 and later 2-light windows, that to right with a tall pointed head.
Memorial to James Hows, 1712, attached to east wall, shaped head with skull between flowers.
Interior: C13 4-bay arcades of alternating drum and octagonal piers with almost waterholding bases and well moulded caps, the eastern responds an annulated shaft with waterholding base and undercut moulding to cap, the western responds squared with chamfered arrises, the south face with bar stop and the north with run-out stop.
C19 font.
TM0843 : Hintlesham, St. Nicholas's Church: Octagonal Perpendicular Period font 3 (detail)
Remains wall paintings above North arcade, that opposite door said to be St Christopher.
South chancel early C16 brick four-centre arched doorway with chamfered reveals, the rood tower and steps also brick, with timber treads.
Fine late C17 moulded altar rail with twisted balusters.
Monuments: Thomas Tympley, Armigeyr d.
14 Ia 1593, his wife and family.
Two pairs of facing kneeling figures flanked by their children between pilasters and below cornice of coloured marble panels, framed by scrolled brackets.
Below, 2 black marble panels inscribed in Latin, articulated by stumpy pilaster strips or panels, the base of carved stone strapwork decoration.
28 January 1629.
Engraved slate panel depicting armoured figure beneath pedimented canopy with shield and escutchion above, and flanked by military trophies.
29 April 1681 and Michael Tymperley d.
7 July 1653.
A pair of inscribed panels between pilasters and below semi-circular hoods crowned by winged figures.
The apron, of heavily carved scrolls and garland, flanked by blank shields.
Inscribed tablets to Charles Vesey 1637, Thomas Vesey 1679.