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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Mid Suffolk

Suffolk

St Mary) Parish church, mainly mid C14

Architectural Features

Tower of c.1330 contains main entrance: a moulded and shafted outer doorway, small moulded Y-traceried windows to east and west.

Y-traceried belfry windows with grotesque gargoyles above.

Richly moulded inner doorway of early C14

A wooden doorframe in the outer doorway is dated 1699, with flanking initials

the 1st floor (probably of same date) is constructed partly from components of a medieval rood screen.

South aisle of mid C14: four windows have curvilinear tracery, and there is a cusped-headed piscina.

The chancel has a C14 south doorway, and a piscina with pierced traceried spandrels.

Nave much remodelled in C15 when the clerestory was added and fine 5-bay roof built: cambered tie beams with curved queenstruts to principal rafters

Fine carved bosses at intersections, and embattling to tie-beams and cornice.

The lean-to aisle roof is similar with 3 tiers of purlins, restored angels at the wallposts, and much cresting.

C15 chancel windows, restored in C19.

Good C15 font, octagonal limestone, with emblems of the evangelists alternating with shield-bearing angels, and around the stem lions and wild men.

In the chancel is an C18 marble slab with well-carved achievment

About 10 other slabs in the nave, 7 of which have brass indents of C16/C17.

A wall monument in the nave to Robert Offwood, d. 1756 and his wife and 3 infants.

Two other wall monuments of early C18 in the aisle.

5 painted hatchments on the nave walls.