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- 1. St Mary Magdalene, Little Whelnetham, Suffolk, England
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Parish church Little Whelnetham stands in the rolling countryside of the Lark valley, some 3 miles SE of the centre of Bury St Edmunds. The village amounts to a cluster of houses and farm buildings on the road from Sicklesmere to Bradfield St George. Curiously, Great Whelnetham its nearest neighbour, belongs to a different benefice.
- 2. Holy Trinity, Middleton, Suffolk, England
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Parish church Middleton is a substantial village in east Suffolk, midway between Aldeburgh and Southwold and 3 miles from the coast. The Minsmere River runs through the village on its way to the partially drained coastal marshland that now forms the Minsmere bird sanctuary. The village centre is on the rising arable land S of the river with the church at its northern edge. Holy Trinity church has a nave and chancel in one, under a single roof, with a S porch to the nave, and a W tower with a spire. Both nave and chancel are 12thc. The nave has a shaft at its SW angle and a chevron-decorated S doorway, and the chancel has the remains of 12thc. ornament around its interior western windows on both sides. The piscina also includes some 12thc. work. The 12thc. chancel must have been lengthened and a new piscina built incorporating material from the old one. The E window and two N windows are intersecting or Y-tracery work ofc.1300, and this was presumably when the chancel was extended. The nave also has one Y-tracery on the N. All other nave and chancel windows are 15thc. insertions, and there is no N doorway to the nave. The S porch is mortar rendered with flushwork panels, battlements and a stepped gable. It has a classical pediment over the entrance and may be 15thc., remodelled in the 18thc. The nave and chancel have been refaced in mixed knapped flints and rubble, laid to give a crazy-paving effect. The tall, slender tower is of flint with heavy quoins at the eastern angles that may be 12thc. At the W are added diagonal buttresses with flushwork chequers. It has been heightened, and its upper storey has a slight setback. The bell-openings are 15thc., as is the embattled parapet with its flushwork tracery panels. The spire is a slender lead spike, and was completely rebuilt in 1955. While the work was proceeding, the thatched roof of the church caught fire, and the blaze spread to the rest of the building. Villagers rescued most of the furnishings, and surprisingly little was irrevocably lost. Romanesque work is found on the S doorway, the nave SW angle shaft, the piscina and around two chancel windows.
- 3. St Catherine, Pettaugh, Suffolk, England
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Parish church Pettaugh lies on the A1120, midway between Stowmarket and Framlingham, and 9 miles N of the centre of Ipswich. The village clusters around a staggered crossroad on the A1120, but it is not a busy road and the settlement retains its village character. The church stands alongside the main road at the E end of this compact village. The landscape is the typical arable farmland of the East Anglian plain, and a stream runs past the E end of the church, eventually joining the river Deben SE of Debenham.
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