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The Great Mickfield Disaster
A Simon's Suffolk Churches production.

March 2004: St Andrew, Mickfield is at last being cared for!
A local trust has bought it and is slowly restoring it, hopefully for community use.
This entry will need to be rewritten, and this will happen after I've visited again in the Spring.
In the meantime, see their website.
Please bear their efforts in mind as you read the following, which was written a year ago.

This page records the state of the church of St Andrew,
at Mickfield in Suffolk, as it was in February 2003.

How did it get in this state? Read the story so far.

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St Andrew's tower above the children's play area on the Stonham Aspall road.

approaching the church:

the graves of William Lucock and Bertie William Lucock, father and son who died within weeks of each other in 1895. Disturbed graves lean against the east tower wall.

around the church:

First sight: the view from the footpath. South east window of the nave. The south door. Generations of Mickfielders crossed this threshold over the centuries.
West window - the pride of any church. The north door. I got in here four years ago. Wild England encroaches - Mickfield tower 2003.

inside the church:

The north door from inside, and where the font once stood. Window in the south wall, and memorial to Henry Turner of Mickfield Hall, 1928. Ghosts of the past: Mickfielders' pew ends outlined in the wall. Debris under the chancel arch. Inside the chancel. Only memorials remain.

 

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