Market Weston, Suffolk

St Mary, Locked, no keyholder, is essentially a Victorian rebuild and I'm baffled as to why it's LNK since, albeit ten years ago, Simon Knott gained entry. As I was leaving an old boy planting daffodils started chatting and informed me he was replacing bulbs that the local farmer had ploughed up on a verge he didn't [the farmer] own. It transpired that over the years he'd returned the graveyard from a wilderness to the beautifully maintained area it is today and planted over a £1000 worth of bulbs. Apparently well worth a spring visit.

The chatting seems to be particularly prevalent around here - every church where I met people meant an extra 15 to 20 minutes engaged in conversation with enthusiastic congregation members. Not that I mind but it cost me at least four churches.

ST MARY. Restored in 1844 by Cottingham, who also rebuilt the chancel. The building was Dec, except for the good Perp S porch. Tall two-light windows with panel tracery. Front and battlements with flushwork decoration. The entrance has fleuron decoration, and there are three niches, to the l., to the r., and above the entrance. - PLATE. Elizabethan Cup; Paten 1661; Flagon 1699.

Yet another one Mee missed.

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