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St Mary's Church, Uggeshall, Suffolk
The church has a nave with a taller chancel, both thatched, and a solid and stocky West tower with a wooden bell stage, also thatched. The nave is of rendered flint and can be dated to the 12thC by its North and South doorways. The flint chancel is not rendered. Its chequered brick and flint East wall is 18thC., and the entire chancel appears to have been remodelled in the 19thC. The flint and chequered flushwork masonry of the West tower is not as high as the nave, but its plan is large and has heavy diagonal buttresses and a polygonal stair turret in the middle of the South wall, adding to the impression of bulk. The tower was apparently never built any higher than this. The 19thC. wooden bell stage has a gabled roof. Inside the church there is no chancel arch and the tower arch is tall and 15thC. The chancel retains its 14thC. sedilia, but the rest of it has been remodelled in the 19thC. Curiously the chancel roof is lower than the nave roof inside the church. The North doorway is blocked and South doorways has been remodelled and is under a tiny timber-framed porch.
St Mary's Church, Uggeshall, Suffolk
The church has a nave with a taller chancel, both thatched, and a solid and stocky West tower with a wooden bell stage, also thatched. The nave is of rendered flint and can be dated to the 12thC by its North and South doorways. The flint chancel is not rendered. Its chequered brick and flint East wall is 18thC., and the entire chancel appears to have been remodelled in the 19thC. The flint and chequered flushwork masonry of the West tower is not as high as the nave, but its plan is large and has heavy diagonal buttresses and a polygonal stair turret in the middle of the South wall, adding to the impression of bulk. The tower was apparently never built any higher than this. The 19thC. wooden bell stage has a gabled roof. Inside the church there is no chancel arch and the tower arch is tall and 15thC. The chancel retains its 14thC. sedilia, but the rest of it has been remodelled in the 19thC. Curiously the chancel roof is lower than the nave roof inside the church. The North doorway is blocked and South doorways has been remodelled and is under a tiny timber-framed porch.