Architectural Features
Chantry chapel of c.1527 and tower of 1751-2.
To the corners are clasping buttresses which take the form of two tiers of pilasters the upper order more attenuated and giving the impression of Tuscan surmounting Roman Doric.
String course with gargoyles below a battlemented parapet.
The wall posts and the lower hammer beams terminate in carved angel bosses all of which bear scrolls held diagonally.
Another series of arched braces rises from these upper hammer posts to the cambered and brattished collars which support square king posts against which are set angels with spread wings.
The wings and many of the heads of the angel bosses appear to have been replaced during the restoration of the 1880s.
Octagonal font above 3 steps, the upper two of which have quatrefoils to the risers.
Defaced figureheads and flowers below the bowl which has eight sunken panels showing angels bearing shields and lions alternately, the angels being heavily defaced.
Four-centered arch with ashlar surround to the rood loft stair on the northern wall immediately above which are remnants of coloured wall painting.
Larger wall painting to west showing St Christopher.
TM2251 : Grundisburgh, St. Mary's Church: c15th wall painting of St. Christopher (detail)
Rood screen of 5 panels divided by buttresses.
Parclose screen dividing the south aisle from the chantry chapel similar to the rood screen.
Chancel: roof of 3 bays, the trusses consisting of wall posts (those to the south resting on stone corbels in the form of crowned figures bearing shields).
Piscina with dog-tooth ornament to the chamfered sides and to the pointed arch and hood mould of late C13 (Pevsner) or possibly earlier.
The ceiling is similar to that of the southern aisle save that the wall posts rest on stone corbels showing crowned figures bearing shields showing the arms of the Awall family and the City of London.
Wall monument in the chancel to Sir Charles Blois of 1730.
TM2251 : Grundisburgh, St. Mary's Church: The Sir Charles Blois memorial
Monument to Martha Brook of 1657, supported on 4 console brackets between which is diamond-point rustication and an oval cartouche, the brackets supporting a ledge on which is a central reading desk in high profile to either side of which are mourners, five male at left and five female at right.
Above this an oval plaque of black marble set against carved drapery with a coat or arms above.