Crowfield Church Without the Flower Festival

All Saints Church Crowfield  is where I go every August for their flower festival because they have a very good second-hand book stall at the same time.

The church is tucked away behind what was the moat for the long gone manor house and is over a mile out of the village.

The moat is covered in duck weed at the moment - doesn't look like water at all.

Then you turn the corner at the end of the path and find the most unusual small church. 

With the only timber framed chancel in Suffolk

As I mentioned when I wrote about the flower festival, this little church was built as a chapel of ease for Coddenham in the 1400s.

A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently, generally due to distance away. Often a chapel of ease is deliberately built as such, being more accessible to some parishioners than the main church.

It's odd that Coddenham village is further away than Crowfield village, parish boundaries must have changed.

Many of the stained glass windows have words from the bible

There are some very good pieces of wood carving 

Under the embroidered altar cloth the altar table was rescued from the redundant Mickfield Church

The little spire for the church's one bell was rebuilt to look better 20 years ago as before that it was described as 'stumpy'!

More about the church in the Suffolk Churches website HERE

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