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This fifteenth flint church is a Grade 1 Listed Building with stone dressings comprising a tall west tower, nave, aisles and a nineteenth century chancel. The west tower has 4 stages with a castellated parapet and diagonal buttresses. The nave mid aisles have castellated parapets. The interior has good roofs to the nave and aisles with moulded beams and puffins and there is a carved cornice to the nave. Interior fittings include a fourteenth century font and, a sixteenth century carved chest. It has been recorded as a Grade 1 Listed Building in recognition of its architectural, historical and topographical value.
The Porch to the South door was re-built in 1856-57 in the fifteenth century architectural style with some re-used medieval timbers in the roof. The carving on the ribs and new rafters is of high quality, as is the stone doorway surround to the entrance of the church.
The Tower houses 5 bells, the earliest dated 1755. The high quality, flower decorated Font dates from the 1440s, the font cover from 1856. The North doorway is of the Decorated period (1300-1380).
The Nave, Clerestory and Aisles. The high quality arcade arches of the nave with aisles either side and clerestory above date from the 1440s as the result of funding by William Hanningfield.
The Chancel An early illustration of the church exists by the artist Isaac Johnson who travelled Suffolk between 1810-18. His illustration (now in the Ipswich Record Office) shows a low chancel with a round-headed Norman doorway on the south side - part of the Domesday church. The chancel was demolished and rebuilt in the mid nineteenth century, following a gift by the rector, Evan Baillie. The organ and gallery moved nearer to the east of the church, the font was moved to the present site, a new oak pulpit and pews installed and an Early English style window installed at the east end.
References:
1. "Images of England - Church of All Saints, The Street, Lawshall". English Heritage. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
2. Lawshall Parish Council, ed. (2006). Lawshall: A Guide to Your Village. Lawshall Parish Council