At the bottom of the dip is a narrow lane leading off into the woods and fields, and you are suddenly plunged into deepest rural Suffolk, with an old rectory, a field of horses and an overgrown churchyard. It is like stepping back a hundred years.
Although the church was Victorianised, this was done fairly early on, and it is still substantially a typical Suffolk church of the 14th century, with a clerestory, but no aisles, added on the eve of the Reformation. The eastern end was rehashed at sometime. Early in the 17th century, a clock and a sundial were added to the south face of the tower. The porch is beneath this south tower.
Sam Mortlock suggests that the inside was restored with more taste than imagination; the font is recut, the floor relaid. and he attributes the woodwork to the great Henry Ringham. An interesting survival of the 18th century is the set of painted texts in panels on the walls, as at Hemingstone.The glass of the east window is early 19th century, and therefore interesting.
But there is also a single pane of medieval glass, depicting a small furry animal. Neither Cautley, Mortlock or Pevsner could identify it.
Sadly the church is locked and there are no keyholders listed on the door or notice board.
All information from Simon Knotts excellent Suffolk Churches website.
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