Monument record HNY 016 - St Mary's Church (Med)

St Mary's Church built 1128. Basil Brown gives list of rectors from 1286-1412 and a pamphlet requesting money to re-hang the six bells, two of which date from pre-Reformation times (S1). Building mostly made out of red bricks, the church was built with a Green and a ditch.
For Med floor levels revealed during monitoring work see PMed.

Renovation work exposed two areas below the current floor level in the nave and the south aisle. Monitoring revealed the presence of several chalk and clay floor layers in the nave, and a tile and brick floor in the south aisle. The tiled surface included an area against the south wall that had probably survived in situ since the 14th-15th centuries, representing a typical design of the period - a yellow- and green-glazed chequered floor. Heavily-worn tiles of the same period had been relaid, and these were surrounded by yellow 18th-century floor bricks. There was possible evidence for a small vault below the floor in an area where large tiles had been laid for ease of removal. Cracked tiles surrounding this were further evidence for the presence of an underlying void. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2000 (S2).