Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is the former parish church of Ixworth Thorpe and now serves as a chapel of ease in the joint parish of Ixworth and Ixworth Thorpe. The church features an early 16th-century tower made of red brick with re-used stone, topped by a timber-framed and weatherboarded belfry that was heightened in the early 19th century and contains one bell. The south porch, also from the early 16th century, is constructed of red brick with knapped flint details, has crenellations on the east and west sides, and a crow-stepped gable-end with an empty cusped niche above the arch. The tower is supported by angle buttresses that are topped with damaged crockets. Inside, there is a 2-bay open timber roof, and the nave and chancel are rendered over random flint with ashlar dressings.

The church has plain, narrow 11th-century north and south doorways. On the south side, there are four decorated, 2-light windows with cusped heads, each uniquely designed. The north side features one 2-light window and two single-light windows. The east window, dating from the early 19th century, is a plain 3-light design with wooden tracery. The roofs are thatched. The interior is plastered and has a barrel roof, with no chancel arch present.

A plain octagonal font sits on a low base, and there is a set of 28 re-used 15th-century poppy-head bench ends, each featuring well-carved figures on the arm rests, including a thatcher with a comb, a mermaid, a woman leading a little dog, a unicorn, and various animals and birds. The church also contains a small octagonal Jacobean pulpit with damaged panels and fine late 17th-century three-sided Communion rails with barley-sugar twist balusters, displaying the arms of George III. The early 19th-century brick floors include two early medieval coffin lids set into the floor just inside the south door. Additionally, there is a small wall monument on each side of the chancel.