Chattisham, Suffolk

St Margaret & All Saints, open, however sniffy Pevsner might be, is a delight; from its bespectacled lion in the GIIR arms, two illegible plaster monuments, three brasses - one to Mary Revers d. 1592 -, an interesting poor box and not forgetting the truncated, embattled tower, I loved it all. To my mind the 1869 restoration was a sensitive one leaving us with a charmingly rustic interior. So far definitely the church of the day.

ALL SAINTS AND ST MARGARET. Nave and chancel and short W tower. The tower was much repaired and received its battlements in 1772. The church appears to be early C14 but was over-restored in 1869. - POOR Box. Cylindrical, 8 in. high, made of a solid piece of wood. - PLATE. Elizabethan Cup.

CHATTISHAM. Its 14th century flint and brick church stands delightfully in its tree-shaded churchyard. In the little chancel are a priest’s seat and a canopied piscina; and the roodloft doorway remains. There are 16th and 17th century portrait brasses of the Revers family. John Revers has vanished, but his. wife remains on the chancel wall in her hat and ruff and in the floor, half under the pews, are the portraits of their three sons and seven daughters.

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