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All Saints

All Saints

Burthorpe

Suffolk

Nave has Norman walling on north side with restored window having widely-splayed reveals

Architectural Features

simple C13 north doorway

3 C15 3-light north windows with tracery

south arcade with C14 chamfered arches on octagonal piers with moulded capitals (bases buried in floor).

Mid C13 chancel with clasping buttresses, parapet gable with carved kneelers, restored quatrefoil vent in east wall apex

Moulded C14 chancel north door into vestry

arcaded C13 sedilia and piscina, heavily restored

broad C14 chancel arch with pilasters.

Large unbuttressed early C13 tower, raised

altered C14, with crenellated parapets and lion-head gargoyles

blocked C13 openings at mid-height

inserted internal C14 stair turret has loop windows and arched doorway with original door.

Broad, moulded tower arch C13 on square piers with chamfered reveals and abaci

arch blocked C14 and moulded doorway inserted

C14 south aisle with C13 core

west wall with lancet raised C14 and crenellated parapets added

Mid C14 porch with pilasters having base and capital mouldings, small quatrefoil openings on sidewalls, sundial over entrance.

Aisle contains chapel to St. Michael with C14 sedilia, canopied sepulchre, and simple piscina.

replacement of most doors in oak (north door leaf has strap hinges in C13 style)

limestone reredos and arcaded altar-rails in C13 style

stained glass in east window.

TL7664 : All Saints, Barrow - Font

Octagonal font, c.1400, with sunk and traeeried panels and escutcheons.

TL7664 : All Saints, Barrow - Font

© John Salmon

Choirstalls mid C19, re-using parts of C16 benches having poppy-head ends some with animal and human figures.

2 C15 benches in south aisle have square traceried ends.

Oak eagle lectern.

2 painted figures in reveals of Norman nave window.

Easter sepulchre tomb of Sir Clement Heigham in Purbeck marble with brass inscription.

3 C17 mural monuments on south chancel wall, one to Sir John Heigham , by John Stone, erected 1650.

A group of limestone tombstones beside chancel south wall, C18, with carved foliage at heads.