Monument record FML 009 - Church of St Michael

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Summary

St Edmundsbury and Ipswich diocese, Suffolk archdeaconry, Loes deanery.

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 285 635 (99m by 109m)
Map sheet TM26SE
Civil Parish FRAMLINGHAM, SUFFOLK COASTAL, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

St Edmundsbury and Ipswich diocese, Suffolk archdeaconry, Loes deanery. Status : rectory. Date : Perpendicular. The position of the church is in Framlingham itself (S2).
Building begun mid C15. Structure : chancel and side chapels, nave with clerestory, aisles, battlemented S porch and SW tower. Howard monument in the S aisle (S1). Hammerbeam roof and flushed panelling decorate the W tower. Contains octagonal font with original cover (S3). Nave roof and organ case illustrated (S4).
A knapped flint from the masonry of church is now in Passmore Edwards Museum, London (S5).
Scarfe records this as a possible Domesday Minster (S6).

Sources/Archives (6)

  • <S1> Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. PSIA, 3, 1863, (3), 340-357.
  • <S2> (No record type): SAU, Suffolk Parishes, a guide to their archaeology and history, 1984- 1985, ms.
  • <S3> Bibliographic reference: Pevsner N & Radcliffe E. 1974. The Buildings of England: Suffolk. Pevsner N, The buildings of England-Suffolk, London 1974, 216-217.
  • <S4> Bibliographic reference: Cautley H M. 1975. Suffolk Churches. 108, 238 (ill).
  • <S5> (No record type): Passmore Edwards Museum Register, 1985, accession number 15507.
  • <S6> Bibliographic reference: Dymond D and Martin E. 1999. An Historical Atlas of Suffolk (revised edition). Scarfe N, 'Domesday Churches', 3rd ed, 1999, map 21.

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Aug 4 2014 10:59AM

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