Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a redundant parish church dating from the 12th century, with later medieval additions. It features a nave, chancel, west tower, and south porch, constructed from rubble flint, with coursed flint along the lower parts of the nave walls and some ragstone, as well as traces of external plaster. The roofs are steeply pitched and covered with plain tiles. The plain tower, which has no buttresses, is divided into three stages and includes an internal stair, string courses, an embattled parapet, and 2-light windows with Y-tracery. The belfry contains four dismounted bells, three of which are dated 1591, 1608, and 1730.

The south porch, dating from the 15th century, has a plain doorway and two 2-light windows with cusped heads. The floor features two medieval coffin-lids that have been reused as paving. The Norman south doorway has a plain inner arch supported by two orders of columns with cushion caps, and both arches display a formalised acanthus-leaf decoration, which is a very unusual motif in Suffolk. Each of the outer columns has a scratch dial. The nave walls appear to have been heightened, and on the south side, there are two 2-light windows with cusped Y-tracery and another 2-light window with a flat Tudor arch.

Inside, there are remains of an Easter Sepulchre against the north wall, with traces of wall-painting above it. The plain octagonal font has a damaged Jacobean cover. There is a blocked north doorway, and the roof, uncovered in 1982, is of a simple rafter type with scissor-bracing halved across the collars. This roof was previously covered during the 19th century with barrel vaulting and three false hammerbeam trusses. Benches around the nave walls include two small ones with low seats, likely for children. The floor is paved with white gault floor bricks laid diagonally, and there are two black ledger slabs, one of which is much damaged. The chancel features a 3-light east window with reticulated tracery and remains of medieval glass, as well as a piscina with a restored cusped ogee head and a tiny matching side opening. There is a small pointed doorway with a hood-mould and a blocked south window. The roof of the chancel is still covered.