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This church is set in typically agricultural high Suffolk, the wide spaces with the hedgerows gone, the fields of barley and rape. The village was a station on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, popularly known as the Middy, which survived in some form until well after the Second World War. Just short of Horham, you cross a long concrete expanse which stretches away from the road at an angle. This was, the former runway of the large wartime American airbase, all that remains of one of the biggest of its kind. It was the home of 95th Bomb Group. From here, the cities of Germany were bombed, and St Mary is one of several Suffolk churches that have become shrines to the memory of the former American presence here. Apart from that, you'd never know today, but for many young American boys now in their late eighties and nineties if they are still alive, a sight of the tower of Horham church was a sign that they were nearly home and safe.

In fact, the base was a scene of a terrible accident during the Second World War, when a munitions dump exploded and dozens of people were killed, but for obvious reasons it was hushed up at the time, and little is known about it today. The 95th Bomb Group memorial is across the road from the church, in the shape of a plane tail. It stands on a pedestal marked with the runway layout, like that at Knettishall.

I remember Horham with affection, because when I started exploring the county's churches in the 1990s this was one of the first places I visited. North Suffolk seemed fairly exotic and foreign to me then, and I did not even know that Horham is pronounced, for an obvious reason, Horrum with a short o as in foreign and Holland, rather than to rhyme with quorum. Having since found myself in just about all the backwaters and byways of East Anglia and beyond, it is a pleasure nowadays to come back and find that this is still a pretty and remote place, just as it had seemed to me then.

Despite being some way off the pulse of medieval industrial Suffolk, this is a typically fine tower of the period, immediately on the eve of the protestant Reformation. The Jernegans were patrons, which may explain the extent to which no expense was spared. Simon Cotton has uncovered a large number of bequests: a 1489 bequest to 'new' tower 'when begun'; a 1496 bequest to the tower; in 1499, 10s bequeathed to the making of the new steeple, and further bequests to the tower in 1503, 1504, 1510 and 1512. There was a bell bequest in 1514, which may link up with the earliest of the current bells, of which more in a moment.

A blocked Norman north doorway reveals the true age of the nave walls. The chancel is all Victorian, but the rest reveals evidence of 14th century rebuilding. The white rendering of the nave gives it an air of being a cottage with a tower and chancel built on. Rather lovely, in fact. Most curiously, it has been heightened without the introduction of a clerestory. Because of this, your eyes can take some time on a sunny day to adjust to the interior. the church is small, and rather charming, thoroughly Victorianised, but with a strong sense of its continuity, of the Horhamers of the past.

The porch is placed towards the middle of the south wall, and you step into the middle of the nave to face the font set in a floor of pamment stones. No two village church interiors are identical, of course, but Horham is rather more idiosyncratic than most. There was a lot of money spent here in the 1630s, so perhaps this was a particularly Laudian parish. From this date, or more precisely November 29th 1631, came the screen, for this is inscribed on it. It has been reset, and behind it is a contemporary pulpit, not as elaborate as some Stuart pulpits, but in this small church it is quietly beautiful. A 19th century replacement screen sits to the east.

A great curiosity is the tray which slides out underneath the seat of the fourth bench from the front on the south side. The guide says it is for candles, but I think Sam Mortlock is correct when he writes that it was for the churchwardens' clay pipe. There is a small hole in it, as if for cleaning, perhaps of ashes.

Horham is famous with bell-ringers because, perhaps unexpectedly in this out of the way spot, this church has the oldest ring of eight bells in the whole world. An 18th century graffito on the chancel arch reminds the ringers what is due to the Sexton for keeping them in order. A modern wooden roundel on the north wall depicts the Annunciation, and St Dunstan, the patron Saint of bellfounders. It remembers the American donations which paid for the restoration of the bells. Another American touch is the straw eagle set in a glass case, two flags in its mouth, made by an American lad who joined the congregation in the 1940s. It is simple and moving.

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