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- 1. New St Mary, Braiseworth, Suffolk, England
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Private house, formerly parish church Braiseworth is in rolling arable farmland in N central Suffolk, 1½ miles S of Eye. It lies to the E of the Roman road from Ipswich to Diss, now the A140, but there is now no village centre, only the old and new churches (both now redundant), an orchard, Priory farm and a few widely dispersed houses on the lanes round about. Taking Priory farm as the centre, the land falls to the E to the valley of the river Dove, a stream that flows NE to join the river Waveney near Hoxne on the Norfolk border.
- 2. St Botolph, North Cove, Suffolk, England
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Parish church St Botolph's has a slim W tower of flint and brick, 13thc. in its lower parts with a later knapped flint embattled parapet. The nave and chancel are of flint, with brick buttresses and repairs on the S. The roof is of thatch. The only Romanesque feature is the S nave doorway, now under a 14thc. flint and brick porch. The N doorway and one N window are 13thc. The chancel contains 14thc. wall paintings generally considered among the finest in the county, and showing Passion scenes and a Doom. They were restored in the 1990s, when a good deal of 19thc. overpainting was removed.
- 3. St Bartholomew, Orford, Suffolk, England
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Parish church Orford is a tiny coastal town in the sandlings of SE Suffolk, 16 miles due E of Ipswich. It was not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but there was a successful port at the mouth of the river Alde and a market here by 1138. The town received a boost from the building of the castle by Henry II between 1165 and 1173, but its importance fell as the port silted up; the sea throwing up the long sand bar that now extends for over 5 miles from Orford Ness down to Hollesley. The town is simply laid out around the market place, with the church at its E end and the castle 0.27 km W of the market at the edge of the town. The road from Sudbourne runs right through the centre, alongside the market, to end at the quay at the town's S edge.
- 4. St Mary, Poslingford, Suffolk, England
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Parish church Poslingford is in the SW corner of Suffolk, 2 miles N of the Essex border and 6 miles E of Haverhill. The village lies in the valley of a stream that runs S into the Stour at Clare, and a road following the same course forms the High Street. The church is in the village centre alongside this road, on the rising ground on the W side, and Poslingford Hall is immediately to the S of it.
- 5. St Nicholas, Stanningfield, Suffolk, England
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Parish church Stanningfield is in central W Suffolk, 5 miles S of the centre of Bury St Edmunds, in the rolling farmland typical of this part of the county. The Roman road that forms part of the A134 from Bury to Sudbury runs a mile to the E of the village, which consists of scattered dwellings and farm buildings on a network of by-roads. The centre, such as it is, has migrated half a mile east to Hoggards Green, leaving the church surrounded by just a few houses. The seat of the lords of Stanningfield was at Coldham Hall, 0.8 mile SW of the church. St Nicholas's is a flint church with a W tower, a nave with a wooden S porch and a chancel. The nave is 12thc, judging from the small round-headed windows in the lateral walls and the blocked N doorway, but Y-tracery windows and a new S doorway were addedc.1300. The chancel, of the same height and width as the nave, dates from the same period. Its arch is tall and it has interesting tracery combining geometrical and intersecting features in its N, S and E windows. The S priest's doorway is blocked. On the N side stands the tomb of Thomas Rokewood (d.1521) with the shields of Rokewood and Clopton (Thomas's wife's family) in quatrefoils on the chest. The tower is low and of irregular knapped flints with brick and tile incorporated. It has a plinth and heavy integral buttresses, diagonal at the W and straight at the E, and a square SE stair. The W window is three-light Perpendicular with a transom. The bell-openings are simple lancets with triangular heads and the roof is pyramidal and slate-covered. The tower was taller, but the upper stage was removed when it became unstable in the 1880s, and the roof and bell-openings date from that period. Only the N doorway is recorded here.
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