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Watton Road, THETFORD, IP25 6NQ

Looking south east.

Mainly 15th century

Dominating the centre of the village, this impressive church is mainly 15th c. with a 13th c. chancel with its weatherworn pinnacles. A blocked low side window can be seen adjacent to the priest’s door. Above the porch door is a niche with a rather battered St Michael, and inside is a broken stoup. The octagonal font is dull but has a Jacobean cover; the roof alternates with arch-braced tie-beam and hammer-beams with recumbent angels on the hammers. The pulpit, although of Victorian stone is well carved and not too out of place. The rood loft stairs were once accessible from the chancel before nave was restructured. Good glass in the north nave windows and a fine early chest stands at the west end. Set into the nave floor are five early brasses some of which have been ravaged over the years.

Mostly C15

St Mary's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107771 as we see it today dates mainly from the 15th century. Signs of an earlier building can be discerned in the churchyard just to the east of the chancel. The church houses a number of figure brasses > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107826 and the poppyheads on the benches in the south aisle > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107805 are original, as is the hammerbeam roof in the nave. The baptismal font dates from the 14th century and has a Jacobean cover. 15th century glass by artists of the Norwich School can be seen in the tracery lights of the south aisle windows, depicting angels > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107837 and bishops > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107839. The matching stained glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107841 in the south aisle east window is 19th century (Victorian) as is the carved stone pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107814 which has been executed in the Early English gothic revival style. St Michael > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107816 is carved into one of its panels.

St Mary's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107771 as we see it today dates mainly from the 15th century. Signs of an earlier building can be discerned in the churchyard just to the east of the chancel. The church houses a number of figure brasses > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107826 and the poppyheads on the benches in the south aisle > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107805 are original, as is the hammerbeam roof in the nave. The baptismal font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107845 dates from the 14th century and has a Jacobean cover. 15th century glass by artists of the Norwich School can be seen in the tracery lights of the south aisle windows, depicting angels > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107837 and bishops > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107839. The matching stained glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107841 in the south aisle east window is 19th century (Victorian) as is the carved stone pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107814 which has been executed in the Early English gothic revival style. St Michael > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107816 is carved into one of its panels.