Wyverstone, Suffolk

I passed St George, open, on my way to nearby Westhorpe [qv] and naturally stopped to visit. The setting is delightful, the exterior pleasing and whilst I wouldn't say this is a top flight building it is satisfying. Inside there's some good glass, not one but two royal arms [the one for WR III carved in wood] and an astonishing bas relief carved roodscreen dado - I've never seen a screen like it. As you'd expect it's suffered at the hands of iconoclasts, and two panels have been removed, but it's still extraordinary. It, on it's own, lifts St George in to the realms of a must visit church.

ST GEORGE. Dec W tower with a tier of small quatrefoil windows. S porch of timber with carved bargeboards and a hammerbeam roof. Perp nave and chancel; clerestory, though no aisles. Good roof with arched braces joining at the high collar-beams. - FONT. Octagonal, Perp, simple. Panelled stem; bowl with shields in quatrefoils etc. - BENCHES. Some ends with medieval poppy-heads; also one dated 1616. - SCREEN. Dado with remains of carved, not simply painted, scenes: Annunciation, Nativity, Magi, Mass of St Gregory, Visitation. - PULPIT. Early C16 with linenfold panelling. - COMMUNION RAIL. Jacobean. - STAINED GLASS. A little in the NW and more in the NE window of the nave. - PLATE. Paten and Almsdish 1724; Flagon 1729.

Should I be surprised that this is another village missed by Mee? Perhaps by now not so much [truth is I am].

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