The inside of this curious church is substantially the work of former Lowestoft architect Thomas Penrice. The tower and everything west of it is beleived to be original....or is it? The west wall at least is modern, and the south wall appears to be old, but truncated. In which case the west doorway may have been moved eastwards. But there is no doubt that something drastic happened beyond. Penrice demolished the chancel and built a huge Romanesque nave, with a new chancel beyond and two massive flanking aisles.
You step into the old bit, and it is all neat and plain, all very orderly. The roof of the new element of the church beyond the tower appears to be medieval, although this may be a clever trick because the angels are certainly Victorian.
The brass that Mortlock saw here 20 years ago has been stolen, and so the great treasure (and enormous rarity, as you'll see) is the section of medieval screen that hangs on the north wall of the old bit. The dedicatory inscription along the top to members of the Corder family is in English, and the beginning Pray for the Sowle of... has been scratched out by iconoclasts
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