The archway allows borrowed light to enter the otherwise dim north aisle. The windows on this side echo the high east window, narrowly panelled in pine. On the south side, a doorway leads into the parish hall complex, used when I was here as an old peoples' day centre. Looking east, from darkness to light. From the site of the former stone screen, looking north-east into the extension.
Large tiles pave the extension and central sanctuary .
Above, a 1960s dormer window echoes the medieval one at Ipswich St Nicholas , coincidentally another Hakewill restoration. The use of concrete, brick and wood is reminscent of Basil Spence's work at Sussex University - all that is missing is the ripple of reflected water. This is one of the most exciting and interesting enlargements of a medieval parish church in Suffolk - another is a mile away at Kesgrave All Saints . And there is the fine Norman door, and the tower of course, although that bears Hakewill's decorative impress. But you will probably come here to be thrilled by a juxtaposition of light and dark, between Victorian sentiment and modernist rationalism.