St Mary - Santon Downham. Suffolk - Medieval Churches on Waymarking.com

"St Mary's stands at the E end of the village green; which is little more than a clearing in the surrounding pine forests. It comprises an unaisled nave, chancel and W tower, all of flint with ashlar dressings. The nave has 12thc. N and S doorways, the N under a porch whose abnormally thick E wall may originally have been the W wall of the N chapel (see below). The western pair of side windows in the nave have round-headed arches and splays within but pointed lancets on the outside. There was once a chapel at the E end of the nave on the N side; its blocked 14thc. arch has been converted into a window, and its piscina remains, now on the exterior nave wall. The chancel has a S doorway ofc.1200, apparently re-set from the N wall. Otherwise the lateral chancel windows are 13thc. lancets except for one with flowing tracery on the S, indicating a 14thc. campaign. The E window is 19thc. and reticulated. The 14thc. campaign also included the chancel arch. The W tower, though plain and unbuttressed, is dated by wills to 1460-1503, so its 15thc. W window is an original feature. It has a polygonal SW stair. There was a major restoration in 1893. Romanesque features recorded here are the N and S nave doorways, the S chancel doorway, a relief panel set over the S nave doorway and a section of string course or possibly a lintel now re-set inside the chancel in the N wall."

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