Open daily this beautiful church is well worth a visit. It is full of wooden features such as a three decker pulpit, Jacobean rood screen and pews. John Betjeman called this church a village Westminster Abbey..he wasn't wrong.
Dating from the late 13th century Kedington church, St Peter and St Paul, is one of East Anglia's historical treasures.The church was built on top of a Roman villa, the remains of which can be viewed under small trap doors located in the pews to the rear of the nave. Standing in the east window is their most prized possession, a Saxon cross dating from the C9th discovered under the church floor telling us this is the site of an ancient church. The early 1600's three-decker octagonal Jacobean pulpit with sounding-board, clerks desk, hat pegs a wig pole and an hour-glass stand is considered to be the best in England.The hall pew built around the same time is a two section family pew of the Barnardiston family constructed from the screen dating from the C15th and has an elaborately carved panelled roof! Over 20 Barnardiston monuments have caused this church to be known as the Westminister Abbey of Suffolk.
such an array of things inside, I have never taken so many interior shots of a Church before, from the old pews to the 14c chest with plenty more to see, well worth a visit.
St Peter and St Paul is a UK Church based in Haverhill, East of England. St Peter and St Paul is located at Mill Rd, Kedington, Haverhill CB9 7NN, UK.
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