St. Mary is a grand, cruciform building with a 15th century west tower, resting sedately in the middle of a large graveyard and it is open to visitors every day, partly as a consequence of being in the first wave of churches funded by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Open Churches Trust
As you walk up the long path towards the church, the overwhelming impression is of the beautiful clerestory picked out with flint flushwork. The great west door is original, its intricate patternwork weathered by the centuries. But you enter through the south door, via a simple porch.
The lack of aisles, and the way that the clerestory makes the nave lighter above our heads than at eye level, the impulse is to look up, and see one of the most glorious hammerbeam roofs in East Anglia; indeed, in all England.
St Mary is a lovely church which, despite its large size, has a thoroughly homely feel.
The image and most of the above text is from Simon Knott's excellent website www.suffolkchurches.co.uk , with grateful thanks.
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