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St Bartholomew

St Bartholomew

Finningham

Suffolk

Early C14, south porch added

Architectural Features

refenestrated in C15, north porch added in C16

Eaves boarded to south, C15 timbers exposed to north, diagonal buttresses to west with coped parapets into tower, straight buttresses to east with a scratch dial to south, coped gable parapet with C19 kneelers.

South porch is to west of centre on nave, outer pointed arch, waved moulded outer order with restored Tudor flower and coronet ornament, inner Tudor flowers onto shafted responds with brattished caps, hood mould with mask stops

C19 wrought iron doors into porch, inner entrance has a C14 pointed arch with a single moulded order, hoodmould, early moulded doors, inner jamb to east has carved consecration crosses.

returns have moulded plinths, 2-light Y traceried hollow moulded openings with 4 centred arched heads, C14 inner entrance as to south.

7 bay single hammerbeam nave roof, moulded posts with arched braces to hammerbeams from which terminal figures are removed, arched braces up to brattished collars, moulded principals and butt purlins, foliate bosses, coved and moulded wall plates with brattishing continued on hammerbeams, brattished moulding over rendered ashlaring.

Octagonal font at west end of nave, late C15 restored

Ornate C15 timber font cover, brattishing over moulded base, complex traceried panels with varying geometrical designs of squares and circles, crocketing up to low pinnacle, lifting system with ornate wrought iron weight.

Poppyhead bench ends, some re-used as choir stalls, many of C15 with tracery

seated figures and grotesques on buttressed arm rests, possibly vices and virtues, a depiction of greed, a figure with a rosary, 2 figures in castles.

lengthy inscription, above a female figure mourning over a chest tomb with shield of arms, black marble backing.

a brass plaque specifying charity of E. Frere of 1766.

Chancel floor 3 C17 inscribed slabs.

Nave floor 2 brass insets.

East window has fragments of C15 glass, saints at head, C19 glass in chancel to north.