All Saints Church, Little Wenham

The church dates from the 13th century. The tower and the south porch were added in the 15th century, and in the following century the tower was raised by the addition of a bell chamber.

The chancel is floored with medieval tiles and brick. On the sanctuary floor are five memorial floor slabs inscribed with dates in the 17th and 18th centuries. On the east wall are paintings. To the left of the east window is a painting of the Virgin with Child, and to the right of the window are three female saints under canopies, namely Saints Martha, Catherine and Mary Magdalene. In the north wall of the chancel is a structure decorated with shields which is either a tomb or an Easter sepulchre. In the south wall is an elaborate memorial to Sir John Brewse, who died in 1585. The memorial is brightly painted and contains the kneeling effigy of Sir John in a round-arched recess. To the…