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ALL SAINTS, WICKHAMBROOK
Believed to have started with a small Saxon church on an old possibly
Pagan site. Some scanty Saxon remains including a crude sculpture.
Church recorded under Badmondisfield causing some queries but I am
convinced it is All Saints. Usual chancel, Nave with north and south
clerestoried aisles, and western tower. Built of flint , pebble and
re-used dressed stone. The north aisle believed to be the site of
the first small church.
Dedication to All Saints recorded as 1311, Vicars back to 1299
Over the centuries the church has been dramatically altered and rebuilt,
and shows how Wickhambrook was in the forefront of the rebellion against
the Established Church. Some prominent Non-Conformists have tablets
in the church but the most striking memorial is that of Sir Thomas
Higham in the chancel. He was a famous warrior in Elizabethan times
and retired to Giffords Hall. The fine chancel is on one level and
the nave has a Jacobean hammer-beam roof, one of only two in Suffolk.
The chancel and tower areas are fine and lofty and the north and south
aisles have prominent arcades.
The 14th century Porch has a huge stoup and a 13th century door. There
is a modern Baptistry with an ancient unfinished font.
A feature of the church is the number of floor or ledger stones to
prominent people over the centuries. Rood stairs still preserved with
strangely two doorways at the top.
Information
provided by Percy Nunn - July 26th 2004
More details about All Saints, Wickhambrook
can also be found by looking at the All
Saints Church page of this website or the All
Saints, Wickhambrook page of the Benefice website
More detailed information about the
Benefice and other interesting facts and information about Wickhambrook
Village can be found on the Bansfield
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