Clockwise around the chancel beginning in the north end -
" The coloured alabaster tomb against the north wall of the chancel commemorates Henry Earl of Surrey and his wife Frances de Vere, daughter of the l5th Earl of Oxford."
" The small altar tomb commemorates Elizabeth, the infant daughter of the 4th Duke by his marriage to Margaret Audley. The ogee arch is upon pilasters and is crocketed with a finial. In the front are two plain shields between Ionic pilasters and on each side is a plain lozenge."
" The tomb in the north-east corner of the chancel commemorates two of the wives of Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk. He first married Mary FitzAlan, heiress after her father's death to the Arundel estates. She died after a year of marriage having given birth to Philip, Earl of Arundel, who was canonised in 1970 for refusing to renounce his Roman Catholicism under Elizabeth I."
" Immediately to the north of the high altar is the tomb of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset , KG, and his wife. This tomb was indeed at Thetford, for Richmond died in 1536. He was the illegitimate son of Henry VIII, his mother being Elizabeth Blount, one of the ladies-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon .
The scenes on the frieze are all from the Old Testament."
" The most outstanding monument amongst all those at Framlingham is the tomb of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. This stands immediately to the south of the high altar. Archeologically it bears comparison with anything in northern Europe if not perhaps in Italy . Around the four sides are the figures of the twelve Apostles together with Aaron and St Paul . On the south side there are St Matthew, St James the Great, St James the Less and St Andrew; on the west St Peter, Aaron and St Paul; on the north St Matthias, St Jude, St Simon and St Philip; and on the east St John, St Simeon(?) and St Thomas. These represent the last major display of religious imagery in England before the full weight of Reformation theology made such things impossible."
" The tomb of Sir Robert Hitcham, the man who bought the Manors of Framlingham and Saxtead from Theophilus, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, for£14000, is to be found in the south aisle of the chancel. It consists of a black marble slab supported at each corner by the figure of an angel each having one knee upon the ground. Under the centre of the slab is a Roman urn and at the west end is the inscription in gold letters upon black marble which may be clearly read."
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