East Window - Church of St.Michael and All Angels, Bruisyard Road, Peasenhall, Suffolk. IP17 2HL.
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greysman
N 52° 16.237 E 001° 27.046
31U E 394290 N 5792268
A five-light east window showing the crucifixion of Our Lord.
Waymark Code: WMRG30
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/21/2016
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A Medieval, Grade II* listed parish church, much restored in 1860-1 in the Perpendicular style 'at the sole cost of J.W.Brooke Esq, of Sibton Park'. Consisting of a nave, chancel, west tower, north porch, and south vestry. Built in random flint and stone rubble with stone dressings and a slated roof. The C15th tower is of three-stages, has diagonal buttresses to the west face and a mid C19th crenellated parapet, both with flushwork, there is a two-light west window, The bell chamber openings are of two-lights and there is a large clock face on the north side facing the village main street. The nave is of five-bays with two-light windows. There is a good C15th porch of knapped flint facade with three tiers of flushwork panels, a moulded arch, and a hoodmould with carved spandrels and stops, there are three empty canopied niches above. In the spandrels are Suffolk's best preserved woodwose, to the right, and dragon, in the left, squaring up to each other. (Woodwose, or wild man, is a mythical figure that appears in the artwork and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands).
The two-bay chancel has a five-light east window with Thomas Willement's glass showing, in the 1860s style, the crucifixion [of Our Lord] simple in the centre three lights with the Virgin Mary to Christ's right and an Apostle to his left. The cross carries the wording INRI in a scroll whilst below the three images is the petition 'By Thy / Cross and Passion Good Lord / deliver us.' In the two outer lights are symbols of the four gospel writers, clockwise from bottom left, St.Luke, an ox, St.Matthew, an angel, St.Mark, a lion, and St.John, an eagle. Between these to the left and right are the swan with bleeding heart and the lamb. All around are colourful panels of foliage, arches, vines and scroll-work, and the Alpha and Omega, and ID, XD scripts.
Internally both nave and chancel have mid C19th scissor-braced rafter roofs and crenellated wall-plates enriched with fleurons, the chancel wall-plate is C15th. There is a good C12th Norman font, square with convex sides and attached corner shafts to the stem. Beneath the organ gallery and to the north and south of the sanctuary is some C16th linenfold panelling taken from the nearby Swan public house. Other furnishings are mid C19th.