Historic Churches in Suffolk

St Peter's church boasts a superb painting of the Day of Judgement, painted on boards around 1500 and hidden beneath coats of whitewash for hundreds of years. The Wenhaston Doom is among the finest medieval paintings in England. Other highlights include a beautifully carved Jacobean pulpit and a medieval sanctuary knocker.
Church Lane, Wenhaston, Suffolk, England, IP19 9EF

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Heritage Highlight: 16th-century Doom painting
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St Mary's church dates to the 11th century and retains a Norman doorway, but much of the present building is 14th-15th century. Highlights include an ornately carved 14th-century angle piscina and very good Victorian stained glass windows commemorating the Benyon family of Culford Hall.
West Stow Road, West Stow, Suffolk, England, IP28 6ET

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Heritage Highlight: 11th-century north doorway
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The isolated church of St Andrew boasts a wealth of historical features including an ornately carved Norman doorway, 15th-century painted Seven Sacrament font and the base of a late medieval screen. Look for the wall paintings of St Christopher carrying the Christ child, and Moses with horns.
Church Hill, Westhall, Suffolk, England, IP19 8NU

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Heritage Highlight: 15th-century screen and Seven Sacrament font
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St Margaret's church dates to the 14th century and boasts perhaps the oldest painted screen in England, built shortly after 1330. There are several fascinating historic memorials including the ornate white marble tomb of Maurice Barrow (d. 1658) and another to William Barrow (d. 1613).
Church Road, Westhorpe, Suffolk, England, IP14 4SU

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Heritage Highlight: 1658 memorial to Maurice Barrow
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St Mary's is a 13th-century church boasting a wonderful array of late medieval carved bench ends. Other historical highlights include a medieval wall painting of St Christopher, 15th-century font, and a 1637 memorial brass to a former rector.
Church Road, Wilby, Suffolk, England, IP21 5LE

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Heritage Highlight: Superb collection of medieval bench ends
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St Andrew's church was begun in 1362 by Sir John Wingfield as a collegiate church, with a college of priest's to pray for his soul. It later became the parish church and boasts tombs to generations of the Wingfields and the De la Poles, Earls of Suffolk. Look for 15 medieval misericords in the chancel and an unusual 18th-century 'hudd', a rain protector for a priest while officiating at burials in bad weather.
Church Road, Wingfield, Suffolk, England, IP21 5RA

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Heritage Highlight: De la Pole family tombs
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St Andrew's began in the 11th century as a chapel of Rumburgh Priory. It still boasts a pair of Norman doorways, as well as a superbly carved 15th-century octagonal font. Other highlights include 15th-century poppyhead bench ends and a beautifully preserved memorial brass of 1638.
Lodge Lane, Wissett, Suffolk, England, IP19 0JG

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Heritage Highlight: Perhaps the oldest tower floor in Britain
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St Mary's is a 12th-century church once owned by Little Horkesley Priory. It boasts an excellent series of 13th-century wall paintings including one of the earliest likenesses of St Francis of Assisi in Britain. Look for the 14th-century painting of a dragon and the 1630 brass to a former rector.
Wiston Road, Wissington, Suffolk, England, CO6 4LX

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Heritage Highlight: Excellent set of 13th-century wall paintings
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One of the finest medieval 'wool churches' in England, a testament to the wealth of the Suffolk wool trade in the 14th and 15th centuries. Highlights include the superb double-hammerbeam angel roof, medieval carved bench ends, and a rare 1520 eagle lectern made to take a chained Bible.
The Street, Woolpit, Suffolk, England, IP30 9QP

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Heritage Highlight: 15th century double-hammerbeam angel roof
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A tiny Norman church, much restored in the Victorian period. Indeed, the restoration, carried out by SS Teulon from 1857, makes this attractive church look like a 19th-century invention at first glance, but it most assuredly is not. This simple church contains superb Norman and medieval carvings.
Wordwell, Suffolk, England, IP28 6UN

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Heritage Highlight: Norman and medieval carvings
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