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All Saints

All Saints

Mid Suffolk

Suffolk

DRINKSTONE THE STREET TL 96 SE 1/29 Church of All Saints - 15.11.54 - II* Parish church, c.1330-50.

Architectural Features

The chancel has good windows of c.1330 with net-tracery (east window restored), one is an insertion of later C14.

North priests doorway also c.1330.

Nave and aisles of mid C14, with several 2-light side windows with segmental-pointed heads and hoodmoulds

carved stonework to copings and buttresses.

Mid C14 porch, much restored: shafted outer doorway.

Inner south doorway of c.1350 with 3 orders of continuous mouldings, and to right an ogee- headed stoup.

Interior: C14 sedilia and piscina, much restored.

Plain chancel arch of c.1350-70, and rood loft stair to south with two doorways.

3-bay C14 nave arcades: octagonal piers with moulded capitals.

In the south aisle are two mutilated C14 image stools.

Some C14 decorated floor tiles in the nave.

Good C15 rood screen, complete up to rood beam and fully coloured, some of which is unrestored.

TL9561 : All Saints, Drinkstone - Font

C13 font: the octagonal bowl has shallow twin arches on each face and has supporting colonnettes.

TL9561 : All Saints, Drinkstone - Font

© John Salmon

A C14 tomb chest with traceried sides is beneath the north arcade.

4 plain C15 poppyhead benches at rear of nave.