St. Michael (or St. Mary)
Thorpe-le-Soken
THORPE-LE-SOKEN (St. Michael or St. Mary) was rebuilt by W. White in 1876, but the earlier 16th. century brick tower was allowed to remain. It has Blue brick diapers, and diagonal buttresses, and the bell-openings have two lights, with a circle as tracery, and are all in brick. In 1902 a pretty weather- vane on a needle spirelet was added.
The Font is octagonal in the Perpendicular style, and has star-shaped panels, with shields. The Screen in the south chapel is of the 15th. century, and the tracery of each division is of two intersected ogee arches that are cusped and crocketed.
The Plate is a Paten on a foot, of 1695.
A monument in the effigy of a knight in chain main, with his legs crossed, lying under a canopy. and has thin diapered angle buttresses, with a cusped and sub-cusped ogee arch, and a thick band of crocketing with large bossy leaves. It dates from about 1300.
