St Mary, Good Bealings, Suffolk
I was out for a bike ride and church check out in the attractive sunshine of the final Saturday in October. I had a new camera to try out out, and immediately after a pint at the pub in Grundisburgh, the most outward aspect of my trajectory, I was heading back into Ipswich by the Bealings.
1st, Terrific Bealings, Regardless of our proximity to the sprawl of bigger Ipswich, this church is in a decidedly rural location in the rolling, wooded fields to the north-east of the city. In the thinning light of the late afternoon, the constructing appeared natural, sitting down in its wild churchyard surrounded by open land on all 4 sides, from which it is divided by a great previous wall. A path by an avenue of trees leads from the main street to the north east corner.
The tower is 15th century, and has a excellent impression area of interest. The Victorians and Edwardians had been busy right here (as we shall see) and significantly of the stonework of the nave and chancel is new, in particular on the south aspect. The significant early 16th century brick north porch carries the iconography of the Seckford spouse and children, and an additional picture niche. Beneath this, the white band carries the fading remains of a painted dedicatory inscription. The inner doorway retains the unique door, set below when the porch was constructed, and carved with standing figures, together with 1 keeping a rosary. It opens into a very long, slender, slightly dim nave. To the east, the chancel seems significant earlier mentioned the nave, the eye drawn to it by the coloured light.
The distinction with the church at neighbouring Minor Bealings is hanging. All Saints, Minimal Bealings, established in the middle of its charming village, is simple and rustic, and complete of light-weight. Good Bealings, by contrast, is darker and fairly severe inside of, glowing carefully from the selection of late 19th and early 20th century glass.
Likely the very best of the glass is the established of the Performs of Mercy in the west window, which Mortlock attributes to Ward & Hughes. Significantly of the relaxation of the glass seems to be by Lavers, Barraud & Westlake, but 1 window signed by Mayer & Co of Munich in the chancel depicts the younger Christ preaching in the Temple. Tere’s also a lovely little lancet window depicting the Increasing of Jairus’s Daughter. This was a well known topic in sentimental 19th century days as a memorial for a dead daughter, and the inscription beneath it remembers Charlotte Olivia Alice.
The nave is complete of Henry Ringham’s amazing carvings, the most effective 19th century woodwork in the east of the county alongside with that Ipswich St Mary le Tower. The beautiful medieval originals, of which some are copies, can be located toward the west. The medieval picture of the pelican in her piety is so comparable to the one particular at close by Tuddenham St Martin that they are virtually unquestionably by the exact carver.
The tall finials on the choir pews are symbols of nearby landed gentry, relatively a lot less delicate than Ringham’s function, but energetic and amusing even so. They are evidently the function of Edward Moor, who was the father of the vicar here in the second 50 % of the 19th century. My favourites are the rhinoceros (for the Webb family) and the moor’s head (for the Moors).
The church is made up of two grand monuments. Just one is in the chancel, to John and Jan Clench, who encounter us with stern puritan expressions, as if considering their destiny. Their kneeling sons beneath are accompanied by two painted skulls. That in the nave is to Thomas and Margaret Seckford, descendants of the Thomas Seckford who developed the porch. Most going of all is the late 19th century brass by the north doorway to Charlotte Allen, grand-daughter of the Edward Moor who carved the chancel finials. She died at the Holme, New Galloway in 1891, at the age of 38. A 7 days later on, her remains ended up laid to relaxation in the south-east corner of her previous dwelling churchyard.
Posted by Simon Knott on 2016-10-30 14:06:57
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