Wixoe St Leonard?s church

Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 29 Apr 2007

In the 12th century, the Normans constructed this church, as can be seen by the lovely south doorway with its zigzag design around the moulding. The coeval north door is plain. The nave walls are also Norman but have been very much restored over the intervening centuries. The chancel was completely rebuilt and the original apsidal end demolished during the Victorian era. Above the west end is a wooden weather-boarded bell turret housing one 15th century bell. There are no signs that a tower ever existed here. Dating from the 14th century is a very plain octagonal font, not at all like those to which we have become accustomed in Suffolk. In fact, the Essex influence is quite strong here, as it is in many of these border parishes. Vladimir Peniakoff (1951), of Popski’s Private Army fame, is buried here. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5059964

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