The church is on a bend of a fairly busy road, if caching with children and geodogs please proceed with care.
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All Saints sits on the busy road between Framlingham and the A12. Thousands of people pass it every day, without having any idea that it is a treasure house, a box of delights. It is rather undistinguished from the outside, and sits very close to the road, which has cut down beside it. On the north side of the graveyard is a huge mausoleum, as big as a garage. It seems to sulk, being so cut off, for the north side of the church is not the most attractive aspect. One the south side the 16th century south is beautiful, lending a quiet grandeur to what would otherwise be a fairly small church. There is no south porch. You step directly through the west door into the space beneath the tower,and then into a lovely church, with a patina of age that the Victorians failed to erase. All Saints was the very last stop on William Dowsing's grand wrecking spree of 1644, and he had not run out of enthusiasm or ideas, defacing imagery on the font and, unusually, also taking the roodscreen to task. Presumably, it hadn't been vandalised enough by the Anglican reformers of a century earlier.Since the 1880s restoration, the roodscreen panels have been relocated to the west end of the nave, around the font. The Saints are badly damaged. They appear to have been a set of the Apostles:you can still make out St Jude, St Simon and St James. There are two excellent windows by the Kempe workshop, and Saints of a later age appear in the one in the east of the chancel, St George and St Martin flanking Christ in Majesty. Back in the nave, another Kempe window depicts the Presentation in the Temple: there is something very tender about the way that the young Mary and the aging Joseph gaze across at Simeon's rapt expression.
The above text contains excerpts from Simon Knott's excellent website www.suffolkchurches.co.uk , with grateful thanks.
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