Copdock, Suffolk

I found St Peter open but undergoing a massive refurbishment - everything, and I really do mean everything, was swathed in plastic whilst they had the painters in. This, obviously, made it difficult to assess or record the interior to any meaningful degree. A quick Google search shows that I appear to have been lucky to have gained access as the church is normally LNK, so I'll take that as a win!

ST PETER. Perp. Quite an impressive church with its aisleless nave, its tall three-light Perp windows, its various doorways, their jambs and arches decorated with fleurons, crowns, and shields, its N transept separated from the nave by a tall arch, again decorated with shields, and its W tower with flushwork panelling on the diagonal buttresses. - DOOR. N door with tracery. - SCULPTURE. Some Elizabethan panels with figures and ornament (e.g. Edward VI on horseback) used in the W gallery.

COPDOCK. It has David sitting playing his harp high above the trees, for he is on the weathervane of Copdock’s church. Below him on the porch, with its crow-stepped gable, is an ancient sundial. The 15th century tower is of the flint and stone so familiar in Suffolk, and the 15th century doorway is carved with flowers. The roof is original with fine bosses, the transept has a remarkably long peephole to the altar, the font is carved with angels, and there are shields with red crosses in the hollow mouldings of a transept arch. There is a gallery fronted with five panels, one showing Edward the Sixth on horseback, and one a lady in the costume of his day.

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