The Church of St Michael the Archangel

www.stmichaelsframlingham.org.uk

Friends of St Michael's

www.onesuffolk.co.uk/StMichaelsChurchFram/FriendsofStMichaels/

Saint Michael's has been built, rebuilt, and added to down the ages.  The capitals of the chancel arch survive as a feature from the twelfth century but the bulk of the church was built in the perpendicular style between 1350 and 1555.  The roof dates from around 1521 and is especially glorious with intricate fan tracery concealing hammer beams.  The font is fifteenth century and the carving on the pedestal of a "woodwose" or "wildman" is a style peculiar to East Anglia.

Opposite the porch door, on the north wall of the nave is a painting dated around 1400 which was rediscovered under plaster in 1890.  One of the most notable features of the church is the famous Thamar Organ.  Only eight of these instruments survived Cromwell's puritan principles and of these eight only three retain their sets of painted pipes.  Framlingham and Gloucestershire (with one modern pipe) are the only sets that play.