Historic Churches in Suffolk

St Lawrence church dates to the mid-15th century and boasts the oldest complete set of bells in the world. One bell may have been paid for by Cardinal Wolsey's uncle, and the set are often referred to as Wolsey's Bells. St Lawrence is now redundant, and serves as a community cerntre and cafe.
Dial Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, IP1 1DJ

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Heritage Highlight: The oldest original set of bells in the world

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A lovely little Perpendicular church surrounded by the bustle of modern Ipswich, St Mary's is crammed into a site beside the docks. The church was built over the period from 1450-1550 and is a very good example of a largely unaltered Perpendicular design.
Foundation Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, IP4 1BU

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St Mary le Tower is the civic church of Ipswich, with a history going back to the late Saxon period. The present church is almost entirely Victorian, though several medieval features have survived, including beautifully carved bench ends and a striking 15th cetury font.
Tower Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, IP1 3BE

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Heritage Highlight: Medieval bench end carvings

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St Peter's by the Waterfront is an attractive 15th century church boasting a 12th century Tournai marble font that once served an Augustinian priory. The priory was dissolved by Cardinal Wolsey, who began to build a school here. Only a ceremonial gate survives from Wolsey's school, and the church now serves dual purpose as a heritage centre and music recital space.
College Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, IP4 1JQ

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Heritage Highlight: 12th century Tournai marble font

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The parish church of St Peter and St Paul at Kedington is a delightful mishmash of styles and periods, a real hotch-potch of history jumbled together into an exceptionally pleasing whole. The low, thatched nave gives way to a flat-roofed chancel with rendered walls that looks for all the world as if its builders had forgotten the top bit of their plans.
Mill Road, Kedington, East Anglia, Suffolk, England, CB9 7NN

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St Mary's church is a striking building of mixed flint and stone, standing on a small hill overlooking one of the prettiest villages in England. Kersey is the sort of place that tourist boards love, with a quiet main street crossing over a cobbled ford, and timber-framed cottages clustered about, as if they've grown there organically over the centuries.
Church Hill, Kersey, East Anglia, Suffolk, England, IP7 6EE

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Not many people make their way to Kettlebaston; this sleepy hamlet seems happy to slumber on in peaceful rural isolation, yet it is only a few miles from the popular tourist town of Lavenham. The church of St Mary stands just off the main road through Kettlebaston. It is an unobtrusive building of flint and stone, begun in the Norman period but mostly a 14th-century building.
Kettlebaston, East Anglia, Suffolk, England, IP7 7QA

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Heritage Highlight: Square Norman font

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The medieval church of St Andrew at Kettleburgh dates mainly to the 14th and 15th centuries. The church consists of a nave, chancel, south porch, and a late 14th-century west tower, of knapped flint. The chancel roof is the original 15th-century construction, but the nave roof was rebuilt in the Victorian period.
Church Road, Kettleburgh, East Anglia, Suffolk, England

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Heritage Highlight: 16th century Pennington brass

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St Nicholas church was built by Walter Cotton as a private chapel for Landwade Hall around 1445. Despite some rather unappealing cement repair work, the essential structure has remained unaltered since the 15th century.
Church Lane, Landwade, Suffolk, England

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Heritage Highlight: Cotton memorials

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The parish church of St Peter and St Paul at Lavenham is one of the last great Suffolk wool churches to be built before the Reformation. This outstanding example of late medieval architecture was begun around 1486 and finished around 1525, just before the religious upheaval of the Reformation changed the course of ecclesiastical and social history.
Church Street, Lavenham, East Anglia, Suffolk, England, CO10 9QT

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Heritage Highlight: 16th century Spring parclose screen

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