ONLY - Flint-built detached round church bell tower in Suffolk - Bramfield, Suffolk
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N 52° 18.583 E 001° 31.060
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A detatched round flint-built church tower at St Andrew's in Bramfield. The only such tower in the county of Suffolk.
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Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/08/2016
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"St. Andrew's Church is a 13th-century church in Bramfield, Suffolk. It has a separate 12th-century tower standing in the church grounds. It is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk and the only detached example in the county."
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"it might remind you of something similar at Little Snoring (
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