Historic Churches in Suffolk

An isolated country church near a lost medieval village, St Andrew's is worth the effort of getting to for the quite wonderful Norman door. The door is of three moulded arches, quite beautifully carved with traditional Norman motifs.
Hilly Close, Sapiston, Suffolk, England, IP31 1RY

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Heritage Highlight: Carved Norman doorway

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St John the Baptist is a 13th-century church, heavily rebuilt in the Victorian period. The highlight is a beautifully carved late medieval font with figures of woodwoses, and a hammer-beam roof hidden under plaster for centuries. In the churchyard is a rare sundial carved into a gravestone.
Church Street, Saxmundham, Suffolk, England, IP17 1ES

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Heritage Highlight: Superb late medieval font carved with woodwoses

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St George's church dates to the 14th century, though it retains a much earlier Norman doorway. The highlight is a series of 15th-century glass tracery panels, and excellent Victorian stained glass windows. In the churchyard is a 'Faint House', supposedly a place for women to loosen their stays in private, but actually a small schoolhouse.
Aveley Lane, Shimpling, Suffolk, England, IP29 4HF

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Heritage Highlight: 15th-century glass

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St Margaret's was built in the 14th century by the monks of Butley Abbey and boasts a 13th-century Purbeck marble font from an earlier church. Look for the 1612 memorial brass of Rose Glover, the rector's wife.
Church Lane, Shottisham, Suffolk, England, IP12 3HG

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Heritage Highlight: 13th-century Purbeck marble font

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St John's is a 13th-century church located well north of Snape village. The highlight is a superbly carved font, made about 1500. The font is carved with Biblical figures, lions, foliage, grotesque faces, and serpents. The altar rails were made with wood from Bow Church in London.
A1094, Snape, Suffolk, England, IP17 1QW

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Heritage Highlight: Superb 15th-century font

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St Mary's is a 15th-century church in the grounds of Somerleyton Hall. The highlight is an outstanding late medieval painted screen, one of the finest in East Anglia. Other historic highlights include a 15th-century octagonal font, and a black marble tomb to John and Anna Wentworth dated 1651.
Blundeston Road (B1074), Somerleyton, Suffolk, England, NR32 5PP

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Heritage Highlight: Superb 15th-century screen

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The Norman church of Sotterley stands in the grounds of Sotterley Hall. It was probably built by Sir Edmund Bigot in the late 11th century. Highlights include the ornate memorial to Sir Thomas Playters (d. 1638) and memorial brasses to generations of the Playters family.
Sotterley Hall, Sotterley, Suffolk, England, NR34 7TU

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Heritage Highlight: Sir Thomas Playters memorial, d. 1638

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The ruins of South Elmham Minster are shrouded in mystery. Was it a pagan temple? A Saxon cathedral? A private chapel of a medieval bishop? No one knows for certain, but this is one of the most fascinating historic sites in Suffolk.
South Elmham, Suffolk, England, IP20 0PY

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Heritage Highlight: A Saxon church atop a Roman temple

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An odd concoction of a church, with bits and pieces that shouldn't really fit well together, but somehow do. All Saints stands all by itself in an isolated rural setting with only a few scattered buildings for company. One of the nearby buildings is a moated 17th-century farmhouse.
South Elmham, Suffolk, England, IP19 0PB

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St Edmund's is a 15th-century church considered one of the finest in Suffolk. The historic highlight is a rare 15th-century mechanical figure known as Southwold Jack that was made to strike the hour bell. Another highlight is a stunning late medieval painted rood screen.
Bartholomew Green, Southwold, Suffolk, England, IP18 6JA

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Heritage Highlight: 15th-century 'Southwold Jack' mechanical clock figure

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