The Nave

• Welcome!
• Tower
• Nave
• Chancel
• Sanctuary
• Organ chamber
• Lady Chapel
• Transept
• Monuments
• Bells
• Contents
• Records
• Churchyard
• Sources

The NAVE is entered by the original south door with simple 14th century ironwork. Notice the scratch marks on the door jambs; some may be taken for masons' marks. The nave itself is 60 feet long and 19 feet wide.

Memorials on the south side commemorate members of the Reade family of Crowe Hall. The entrance to the family vault is outside.

The WEST WINDOW was installed in 2001 to mark the start of the new millennium.  A book was produced at the same time to record the village, its organisations and the donors to the window.  A version can be seen on this website.

Other windows are filled with Victorian stained glass, one in memory of George Baker, a former curate and the founder of the delightful almshouses on Bentley Lane. The stained glass in three of the windows (those placed in memory of the Mills and Barringtons) is from the factory of Charles Clutterbuck in Stratford, East London. The windows date back to 1847 and are rare survivors of glass from this source in Suffolk.

The other glass is from Ward and Hughes' workshop with the exception of that in memory of Hill Jones from Powell in Whitefriars.

The handsome brass LECTERN was presented by Susanna Boby of Alton Hall in 1875. Alton Hall is now under the Alton Water reservoir.