St Michael (Framlingham)
St Michael in Framlingham is an Anglican parish church in Framlingham in Suffolk , England .
history
The construction of the church dates back to the 12th century. The nave arcades date from the 14th century, the roof and windows in the Lichtgaden from the 15th century, and the existing choir from the 16th century.
Construction and plant
The church is built in the perpendicular style . The three-aisled nave with an open roof with a hammer-beam vault contains, among other things, an octagonal baptismal font with the symbols of the Evangelists and the Trinity on a base with four lions and a cover made of oak. Remnants of the wall painting from the 14th century have been preserved, including a mercy seat .
The organ, created in 1674 by Thomas Thamar for Pembroke College, Cambridge , came to Framlingham when the new college chapel was built.
The square, crenellated tower built in the 15th century has remarkable windows on the bell floor. The ringing consists of eight bells.
mausoleum
The chancel, completed around 1550, is longer and wider than the nave. It was built as a mausoleum for the Dukes of Norfolk from the Howard family after their previous burial place in Thetford Priory was lost in the course of the abolition of the monastery under Henry VIII .
The 15th and 16th century funerary monuments were made for Thomas Howard , the third Duke of Norfolk, and his wife, Anne Plantagenet , for the illegitimate son of Henry VIII, Henry Fitzroy (with a depiction of Noah's Ark), who died in 1536 , the two Wives of the 4th Duke of Norfolk, Elizabeth, daughter of the 4th Duke of Norfolk, and erected for the Earl of Surrey , beheaded in 1547 . This funerary monument, erected in 1614, has exaggerated proportions and elaborate figure decorations (two sons at the feet, three daughters at the head of the earl and his wife). In the north chapel is the grave monument for Robert Hitcham from 1638.
literature
- Simon Jenkins: England`s Thousand Best Churches. Allan Lane - The Penguin Press, Harmondsworth 1999, ISBN 0-7139-9281-6 , pp. 650-653.
- Helen Pitcher: The Church of Saint Michael, Framlingham. Jarrold Publishing, Norwich 2005, ISBN 0-7117-4171-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Jenkins: England`s Thousand Best Churches. 1999, p. 651.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 22 " N , 1 ° 20 ′ 41" E