Flempton, Suffolk

St Catherine of Alexandria, open. After the initial euphoria of finding an open church wore off - and even now that earns St Catherine huge kudos - I have to admit to siding with Pevsner in his assessment that it is "much renewed". Having said that there's some good glass, the piscina is fabulous, as is the pulpit and south door and I liked the poor box.

ST CATHERINE. Much renewed. W tower rebuilt in 1839. Nave and chancel. The details are late C13 to early C14. The best original feature is the chancel PISCINA with a two-light reticulated head. E window of three lights with minor flowing tracery. One chancel S window has a transom and beneath it a low-side window. - PULPIT. Elizabethan. - DOOR with tracery. - COMMUNION RAIL. With twisted balusters; late C17. - PLATE. Paten 1760.

FLEMPTON. It looks towards the cross-roads, where its church has stood for about five centuries. Much of it was made new 100 years ago, its carved roofs being modern, but it has kept its 14th century font, and its double piscina with a traceried canopy. The screen behind the altar is 15th century; the pulpit is Jacobean. In the windows are St Catherine and St Gertrude, a patron saint of travellers.

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