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the Holy Innocents

The Holy Innocents

Great Barton

Suffolk

C13 and later

Architectural Features

C15 porch with red brick and trefoil arcading to the base

a gargoyle head on east and west, and 2-light windows.

The C14 south aisle has a 2-light east window with flowing tracery, and Perpendicular windows on the south

C15 north aisle with 4 gargoyle water-heads.

C13 chancel: a simple priest's door on the south side with pointed arch and nook-shafts, and beside it an arched tomb recess with a heavy gable on corbels

the hammer posts supported by headless recumbent figures.

Arcades in 4 bays: early C14 on south, with one octagonal and 2 circular piers

Fragments of medieval glass in the heads of all 3 windows in the north aisle.

Benches with traceried ends and poppyheads, some C15, but many reproductions of 1856.

TL8866 : Holy Innocents, Great Barton - Font

Simple octagonal C13 font, supported on a central column surrounded by 4 outer columns

TL8866 : Holy Innocents, Great Barton - Font

© John Salmon

a tall C19 carved and traceried wooden cover in East Anglian style.

remains of pinnacled C13 piscina and sedilia.

Various wall memorials to members of the Bunbury family.