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All Saints

All Saints

Hemingstone

Suffolk

Medieval with major C16 alterations.

Architectural Features

Medieval walling mainly of plastered rubble with freestone dressings.

Chancel has mid C13 work: plate-traceried windows to north and south, with matching doorway and piscina (east window a C19 restoration, with surrounding rebuilding in red brick).

Nave has much mid/late C14 work: 2-light dagger-traceried windows, with restored grotesque corbels.

Heavily moulded mid C14 south doorway with original grotesque corbels and adjacent stoup.

A fine late C14 tomb recess in south wall, richly-carved: ogee-arched head with buttress-shafts and crocketed finials.

Mid C16 tower of red brick with a compact grid of diaper-patterning in burnt headers

the upper stage is later, perhaps c.1600, without the patterning.

Porch also in mid C16 brick with diaperwork: a 4-centred arched doorway with an angel in carved limestone above

crow-stepped gables (compare C16 brickwork at Ashbocking Hall).

Plain and rather poor mid/late C16 hammerbeam roof to nave.

TM1654 : All Saints Church Font

Norman font bowl of cauldron form, on C19 shafts

TM1654 : All Saints Church Font

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oak cover in the C15 manner is probably C19.

A set of sixteen C17 pews in the nave, with unusual buttresses at the square ends.

C19 benches have reused C15 poppyhead ends.

Mounted on a panel on north wall are brasses of Edmund Bocking with his two wives and two daughters.

Tn the chancel is a slab with brass bearing an acrostic epitaph to Thomas Horseman, 1619