Historic Churches in Suffolk

St Gregory's church dates to around 1370, but it stands on the site of a Saxon church existing since the 8th century. The historic highlight is a superbly carved 15th-century font cover with a telescopic bottom stage. Look for 15th-century misericords and bench ends in the choir and the mummified head of Simon of Sudbury (d. 1381) in the vestry.
Gregory Street (A131), Sudbury, Suffolk, England, CO10 1BA

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Heritage Highlight: Ornate 15th-century font cover

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St Peter's church is a stunning 15th-century building in the centre of Sudbury. It is remarkable to consider that St Peter's was not intended as a parish church at all, but rather as a chapel of ease for nearby St Gregory's church. It only became a parish church in its own right after the Reformation.
Market Hill, Sudbury, Suffolk, England, CO10 2TP

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St Peters is a thatched 13th-century building with several Norman features, including a finely carved vestry doorway. The font is 15th century, with carved lions and woodwoses around the stem. In the church porch is an exhibition on the crash of Zeppelin L48 at Theberton in 1917, along with a section of the airship's frame.
B1112, Theberton, Suffolk, England, IP16 4SA

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Heritage Highlight: Very good Norman doorway in the vestry

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St Peter's dates to the 11th century and boasts a late Saxon round tower with a curious octagonal parapet of red brick. The historic highlight is a 13th-century font of Purbeck marble. Look for tombs to the Bence family, and a memorial to Jane Lovelace, who died in 1630 at the age of 108.
Thorington, Suffolk, England, IP19 9JG

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Heritage Highlight: A late Saxon round tower

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St Mary Magdalene stands on a minor road near the famous Thornham Walks and hosts numerous historic memorials to the lords of the manor at Thornham Hall. Look for the grotesque figure of a Green Man over the porch, and the carved head of a bishop dated to 1336.
Major Lane, Thornham Magna, Suffolk, England, IP23 8HF

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Heritage Highlight: Striking Victorian monument to John and Emily Henniker

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The thatched country church of Thornham Parva is a national treasure. The little church dates to the 11th century and houses a stunning 1330 altarpiece made for Thetford Priory and discovered in a stable in 1927. The walls are covered with 14th-century wall paintings.
Bull Road, Thornham Parva, Suffolk, England, IP23 8ES

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Heritage Highlight: Thornham Parva Retable, dated to c. 1330

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Tunstall's attractive church is a mix of late medieval and Georgian architecture, with lovely 18th-century box pews, a 13th-century Purbeck marble font, two Norman doorways, and the unusual 'Smuggler's Grave' to a pair of local men who died tragically in 1778.
Orford Road, Tunstall, Suffolk, England, IP12 2JN

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Heritage Highlight: 13th-century late Norman font

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The pretty 15th-century church in Ufford boasts some of the finest medieval woodwork in Britain, with the highlight an intricately carved and painted wooden font cover. In the nave are superbly carved bench ends, and there are medieval misericords in the chancel.
Church Lane, Ufford, Suffolk, England, IP13 6DS

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Heritage Highlight: Superb 15th-century font cover and carved bench ends

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In 1696 the villagers of Walberswick tore down the imposing medieval church and built a small church inside the south aisle of the medieval building. Surviving medieval features include a beautifully carved 15th-century pulpit, the base of a rood screen, carved bench ends, and a Perpendicular font carved with figures of woodwoses.
The Street, Walberswick, Suffolk, England, IP18 6UZ

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Heritage Highlight: Beautifully carved 15th-century wooden pulpit

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St Mary's church in Washbrook is a Norman country church just beyond the urban sprawl of Ipswich. St Mary's lies up a winding track, surrounded by trees and meadows in an idyllic setting.
Washbrook, Suffolk, England, IP8 3HQ

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Heritage Highlight: 1609 brass of Edmund Knappe

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