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Church of St Margaret

A Grade I Listed Building in Sotterley, Suffolk

  • St Margaret: c14 to c15; set in park of Sotterley Hall; nave & chancel with Perpendicular & 'Y' traceried windows

  • St Margaret: unbuttressed tapering tower, c.1300; west window with cusped 'Y' tracery

  • St Margaret: nave, c14 to c15 looking east to chancel, c.1300; heavily restored by Reginald Blomfield, 1900

  • St Margaret: c15 font; evangelists & angels carrying shields (defaced)

  • St Margaret: c15 chancel screen with painted figures of the evangelists on dado (unfortunately repainted)

  • St Margaret: repainted saints from screen dado

  • St Margaret: repainted saints from screen dado

  • St Margaret: altar reredos of Nativity scene by Charles Nicholson, 1920s

  • St Margaret: tomb chest of William Playters & wife Jane (Jenney), 1512

  • St Margaret: Jane Jenney from Playters tomb, 1512

  • St Margaret: shield from tomb of William Playters & wife Jane Jenney, 1512

  • St Margaret: part of inscription against top edge from tomb of William Playters & wife Jane Jenney, 1512

  • St Margaret: alabaster tomb of Thomas Playters d.1638 & wives Anne (Swan) & Anne (Browne) by Edward Marshall, 1658

  • St Margaret: Thomas Playters, 1479

  • St Margaret: Anne (Dennys), wife of Thomas Playters, 1479

  • St Margaret: inscription from the brass of Thomas Playters & wife Anne, 1479

  • St Margaret: John Bomsted, 1479

  • St Margaret: Christopher Playters, d.1547, eng. c.1630; possibly palimpsest from mid c15

  • St Margaret: Thomas Playters, 1572; standard Tudor armed figure

  • St Margaret: Thomasine Playters & daughter, 1578; French bonnets

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Entry Name: Church of St Margaret

Listing Date: 1 September 1953

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1032097

English Heritage Legacy ID: 282006

ID on this website: 101032097

Location: St Margaret's Church, East Suffolk, NR34

County: Suffolk

District: East Suffolk

Civil Parish: Sotterley

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Sotterley with Willingham St Margaret

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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