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St Mary

St Mary

Whitton

Suffolk

AKENHAM TM 14 NW 7/1 Church of St. Mary 9.12.55 - II* Church, mediaeval with mid C19 restoration.

Architectural Features

In the north nave wall is a Norman slit window with attached shafts, very restored (or perhaps renewed) in C19

this window suggests chat much of the fabric may also be Norman.

The chancel has two pointed lancets and a plain doorway, of late C13 type.

A C14 square-headed window in the north chancel wall.

The tower was added in late C14 athwart the south doorway, which was re-formed to match the moulded outer doorway

Belfrey openings and flushed flint parapets are restored or rebuilt in C19, but lion-head gargoyles are original.

C15 work includes the canted and ceiled chancel roof, east window with grotesque corbels, and 2 similar restored windows in nave.

South chapel added C16 in red brick with parapets and stuccoed mullioned and transomed windows

C15 octagonal limestone font, the sunk panels on bowl and stem containing tracery.