St Michael's Cemetery - South Elmham St Michael, Suffolk
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N 52° 24.197 E 001° 26.441
31U E 393920 N 5807037
Parish cemetery at St Michael's church, South Elmham St Michael.
Waymark Code: WM11QZA
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/06/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member jhuoni
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Parish cemetery at St Michael's church, South Elmham St Michael.

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"This ancient parish church (Grade I listed) forms part of the Benefice of South Elmham and Ilketshall, which is made up of eleven parishes situated along the edge of the 150 ft contour south of Bungay. St Michael’s is the most easterly of the six South Elmham churches. It is a small pantiled structure overlooking a large green to the south and west. It’s main structural components comprise a Chancel with heavily buttressed east gable, a fine interior timber roof to the Nave, a timber-framed south porch, and a simple square west Tower in flint with stepped flushwork and stone panelled parapet. The churchyard is surrounded by a deep ditch on all sides and there is a large brick pantiled Sexton’s hut in the north-west corner.

The nave was formerly thatched as can be seen by the outline of the roof pitch on the east side of the Tower. The south porch dates from the late C15th/C16th, and its roof is covered with plain tiles. The Tower roof is leaded. There are Belfry sound-holes (the mullions and mullion springers are now missing from the south and west sides and the north and east facing sound-holes are bricked up). There is fine stonework in the Nave and Tower windows. On the exterior of the south Nave wall is a sundial, though it is now 15 minutes slow.

There is much wildlife within the Churchyard, and the area is maintained with this aspect of conservation in mind."

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City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: South Elmham St Michael / Suffolk / England

Approximate number of graves: 100

Cemetery Website: [Web Link]

Cemetery Status: Not listed

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