Long Grove

Farmland towards Allonsfield

Field, Campsea Ashe

Looking towards the church.

Farmland near Blaxhall Hall

The Blaxhall Stone

A nearby information sign TM3556 : Information Sign reads "Said to have been ploughed up in the 19th century when no bigger than two fists, thrown down by the ploughman where it now stands, it has been growing ever since". According to Link

this glacial erratic weighs five tons and comes from a parent mass in Spilsby, Lincolnshire.

Blackstock Barn, Stone Farm, Blaxhall

Thatched cottages

View across the fields to Blaxhall Hall

Cottages at Stone Common, Blaxhall

Interior of St John the Baptist's Church

The 14th-century nave and chancel were rebuilt in 1792 and further restored in 1869. The chancel arch and ceiling date from the 19th-century restoration. The communion table of 1936 was designed by the noted Suffolk ecclesiologist Henry Munro Cautley. The east window showing Christ in majesty TM3255 : Campsea Ashe, St John the Baptist: stained glass window (3) is the work of Powell & Sons in 1912 as a memorial to William and Alice Lowther. Link

Faith and Hope - two theological virtues

Pre-Raphaelite stained glass of 1882 in St John the Baptist's Church, designed by Sir Henry Holiday for Powell Brothers as a memorial to John George Sheppard. Faith is represented by the Cross, and Hope by an anchor. In the vine-leaf panels above, doves symbolising the Holy Spirit are seen ascending at the left and descending on the right. For a general view of the window see TM3255 : Campsea Ashe, St John the Baptist: stained glass window (5).

Pelican in her Piety

Stained glass of 1880 in St John the Baptist's Church; detail of a memorial window to Egidia, 5th Baroness Rendlesham. The companion left-hand panel shows the Agnus Dei. For the whole window see TM3255 : Campsea Ashe, St John the Baptist: stained glass window (1).

Saxon interlace

A piece of pre-Conquest sculpture set in the west wall of St Peter's Church.

West doorway of St Peter's Church

Pevsner, touring Suffolk in 1961, described this as "pretty": "Hook mould with fleurons, spandrels with an angel and a monster-head. Quatrefoil frieze in flushwork over."

St Peter's Church and churchyard

The top of the tower has been repaired in brick. The churchyard is kept tidy by grazing sheep.

Sing we merrily

Early 20th-century stained glass window in the north porch of St Peter's Church, designed and executed by members of the local Rope family (Pevsner ascribes it to Ellen Mary Rope who died in 1934). The text is from a version of the beginning of Psalm 81.

Churchyard sheep

A woolly trio at St Peter's, whose task is to keep the churchyard grass short. On one of the first hot days of the year they must have been relieved to have been just shorn!

St Peter's Church open for you!

A cut-out figure of a shepherd with smock, crook and balloons - perhaps it is St Peter himself, who was given the task of feeding Christ's sheep? Appropriately, self-service refreshments were laid out in the church for visitors hungry or thirsty on this hot afternoon, and the churchyard was being grazed by a number of sheep.