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Double Hammer beam roof

This is Suffolk’s most perfectly restored angel hammerbeam roof. From the still, small silence of the church floor below, you look up into a great shout of praise. Here are hundreds of figures, both angelic and human. The profusion is ordered, as if some mighty hymn were in progress.

St Edmund by Elisabeth Frink

St Edmund

In 869, Edmund, King of the East Angles, met his death at the hands of the Danes. He was tied to a tree and shot with arrows. Legend says that his severed head was thrown into the woods and found being guarded by a wolf. Around 900, Edmund’s body was brought to Bedericesworth (Bury St …

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Holy Trinity, Long Melford

  Holy Trinity Church is one of the great Suffolk wool churches and was built almost entirely in the 15th century at a time of growing prosperity among the local cloth merchants. It was completed in 1484. The only modern part is the tower, dating from 1903.  Much of the stained glass is medieval, and …