Hunston, Suffolk
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Hunston is a small Suffolk hamlet set in a conservation area of Mid-Suffolk and lies between Stowlangtoft and Badwell Ash off the A1088, nearly 8 miles east of the centre of Bury St Edmunds. It is set in flattish farmland, mostly arable.
[edit] St Michael’s Church, Hunston
St Michael’s Church which stands in farmland 0.3 miles south of the village centre, behind the site of Hunston Hall, is a most interesting specimen of Early English architecture. There are a number of Early English windows and some perpendicular insertions. The nave roof is of good hammer-beam type, the restored chancel roof being copied from it. The chancel arch is plain, supported on circular shafts with richly foliated capitals.
The priest’s door to the south is very elegant the head a segmented arch boldly trefoliated the cusps are terminated with fleur-de-lys In the east wall of the transept is a niche leaf with beautiful moulding of foliate design In the south-east angle of the transept is a beautiful Early English double piscina under two trefoil arches one in each wall supported on three circular shafts the central shaft being in the angle of the walls In the chancel are two ancient benches with well carved poppy heads Near the font is a well preserved chest of unusual design
The font is Norman.
The 14th Century flint tower which contains 5 bells is plain decorated of three stages without buttresses with a late brick parapet. In 1887 the chancel was thoroughly restored by the late JH Heigham. In the same year the chancel floor was relaid with mosaic work by a Major C Heigham who in 1882 placed 6 new windows in the chancel.
The most recent refurbishment completed in 2005 was restoration of a central window in the chancel.
