Benchmark, St Margaret, Thrandeston, Suffolk
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SMacB
N 52° 20.713 E 001° 06.335
31U E 370956 N 5801124
Cut benchmark on corner of church tower.
Waymark Code: WMH4X6
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/23/2013
Views: 3
A pleasant country church and there are wonderful views from the tower.
The 15th century tower has a fine dedicatory inscription, which you might miss, screened as it is by a tree. It remembers that the Sulyards and the Cornwallises had it built. Also worthy of note is the extent to which the chancel weeps – that is to say, is at an angle to the nave. This will be even more apparent inside, of course. It is a reminder that naves and chancels were built at different times by different people, often on the site of earlier ones; it should be more of a surprise that so few weep rather than that any do at all. The porch and clerestory are typical Suffolk perpendicular, but on a small, intimate scale.
Type of Trigpoint: Cut Bench Mark
Condition: Good
Number on Flush Bracket: N/A
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