Architectural Features
South door is arched, with 6 lower panels of each of the 2 leafs carved with parchment relief
4 upper panels with parchment and heraldic relief carving.
south aisle parapet is crenellated over a corbel course of angel and grotesque heads.
Roofs: continuous to nave and chancel, of alternating false hammerbeams with carved arched braces dropping to moulded wall posts on corbelheads.
Arched braces rise from carved angel figures on the hammerbeams to moulded principals intersected by 2 tiers of moulded butt purlins and on to a moulded ridge piece
Chancel roof is panelled and painted, with fleuron bosses at intersections: west bay painted with angels carrying scrolls.
Chancel screen, c1480, tripartite, serving aisles and central vessel, each of 3 major bays either side of arched opening: dado panels split into 2 per bay, with painted figures, restored 1930.
North screen with Nine Orders of Angels
centre with Apostles, restored 1874
south with Old Testament Prophets.
Chancel: stalls C15 with traceried front panels, misericords and animal and figurative arm rests.
Benches C16.
Nave: C15 octagonal font on C20 stepped plinth: font stem with niches under pairs of miniature carved ogee arches with crockets and finials.
St Edmund's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933556 appears to have been rebuilt during the 15th century. The building has hammerbeam roofs with carved angels and above the rood screen the original celure > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933604 can still be seen. The roofs were repainted in the 19th century, closely copying the original colours and decorations as was the wineglass pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933592 which dates from the 15th century. The chancel screen > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933600 combined with the parclose screens of both north and south aisles stretches across the whole width of the church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933632. The chancel screen dado is painted with apostles on a background of gilded gesso ornaments > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933611. The north aisle screen panels depict angels > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933619 and prophets > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933614 are painted on the panels of the south aisle screen. The panels of the seven Sacraments font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933651 have been removed, the font cover is part of the Victorian restoration. The carved elbow rests > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933639 and misericord seats in the chancel are original and date from the 15th century.
Bowl panels have wide niches under 4-centred canopies with carved lierne vaults.
Tall openwork font canopy of 1935 by FE Howard.
Early C16 octagonal pulpit on a tapering stem, the panels with profuse Perpendicular tracery.
TM5076 : Church of St Edmund, Southwold: steps up to the pulpit
On north wall, painted hatchment of arms of George III.