Waldringfield All Saints church

Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 17 Apr 2007

Standing close to the road, the tower catches the eye and immediately you wonder about the date. Well, it is Tudor and has turret stairs leading to the belfry. The walls of the church have been rendered with cement but the external character has not been lost. The porch is very simple. There is a good traditional East Anglian octagonal font with evangelical symbols around the bowl. Angelic faces peer down from the corbel and cross-legged figures pray around the shaft. Everything else is reproduction or new in 1864 when the Victorians ‘restored’ the church. The nave and chancel are austere and lack any warmth or character. On the south wall is a recent memorial to Sir William Bragg F.R.S. (1971). From here too, is a good view of the River Deben.

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