Scratch dial - St.Michael's Church, Rendham, Suffolk. IP17 2AF
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greysman
N 52° 13.715 E 001° 26.365
31U E 393415 N 5787609
This scratch dial is under the eastern-most lancet window in the church chancel.
Waymark Code: WMRJ54
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/26/2016
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This Medieval parish church was restored in 1852 and has been awarded Grade II* listing. It is of a simple plan, nave, chancel, west tower, north porch, and north vestry. Built of random flint rubble with stone dressings, there are remains of old plaster-work on the east wall of the chancel, it has plaintiled roofs to the nave and porch, and slates to the chancel.
The tower is C15th, of four stages and has a crenellated parapet, there are diagonal buttresses to the west face, a two-light west window with a blocked niche above it, two-light Y-tracery bell chamber openings, and panelled flushwork to the parapet and buttresses. The nave has two C15th windows (one largely original) and a blocked doorway to the south, and one two-light C15th window to the north. The simple C15th porch has a knapped flint facade and an empty niche over the doorway.
The C14th chancel has two broad lancet windows and a Priest's doorway to the south, one two-light Y tracery window to the north and a four-light east window with intersecting tracery. Beneath the eastern-most south lancet is a scratch sundial minus its gnomon. The simple arch-braced nave roof is of six bays with moulded wallplates; there is no chancel arch.
Words from British Listed Buildings and Simon Knott's Suffolk Churches with additions from own on site observations.
Coordinates are for the north porch entrance.