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A rural church on the edge of modern life

Up a track and through fields, though now on the edge of Ipswich housing developments, St Mary’s remains rural and remote.

This small and simple flint-towered church dates mainly from the later Middle Ages, apart from the brick south chapel added in the 16th- or 17th-century.

The interior is simple but beautiful and contains a wonderful carved font with traceried panels around the bowl.

A piscina in the chapel and a blocked north doorway in the nave were uncovered during recent repairs.

The solitary gravestone to the north of the church of a two year old boy (who died in 1878) helped to alter the Burial Laws of England.

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