Church Of St Mary

RAYDON

THE STREET

TM 03 NW 3/27 22.2.55

(West Side) Church of St Mary

GV II*

Church. Late C13 - early C14, restored 1883. Flint with ashlar dressings, south side rendered. Timber porch. Plain tile roofs. 3-bay nave with low bell house to west, south porch and north vestry. Slightly lower chancel. Square bell house with louvres and pyramidal roof with ball finial. Nave: diagonal off-set buttresses to west end. South side: probable late C19 gabled porch contains original south door, continuously moulded under pointed arch with stoup to right and surmounted by a niche. Off-set buttress to east of porch. Window to west restored, 2-light with ogee-cusped Y-tracery. Centre window has 2 cusped lights with cusped spherical triangle in head and window to east has 2 cusped ogee lights with cusped vesica in head. Hoodmould with head stops to all windows. North side: C19 gabled vestry, windows similar to south side. Chancel, south side: central pointed priests door has shafts with moulded capitals. Off-set buttresses with cusped gables. Window to west a single cusped light surmounted by trefoil under hoodmould with panel of blind tracery below which may once have been open. Pair of 2-light windows with geometrical tracery under hoodmoulds. North side: two similar windows with geometrical tracery and V-shaped buttresses (Cautley p1.8). Diagonal buttresses to east end with fine crocketed pinnacle finials. 4-light east window replaced 1883. Interior: nave piscina with cusped pointed arch. Brackets of former rood beam flank chancel arch and stairs survive to north. Tomb recess with cusped heavily-moulded arch with head stops of type used as Easter sepulchre. Fine piscina with open geometrical tracery. Wall tablet to John Mayor (d1663)in marble with broken segmental pedimented aedicule.

H Munro Cautley, Suffolk Churches 5th ed 1982, p340 pl.8.

Listing NGR: TM0493138617