Editing Kettlebaston (section)

===Parish church===
The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has [[Norman architecture|Norman]] origins, and features a [[baptismal font|font]] from around 1200. The building is  listed as Grade I.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1037253|desc=Church of St Mary|grade=I}}</ref> It is recorded that the church was then "built anew" in 1342, remaining largely unchanged until targeted by [[Protestant]] [[iconoclast]]s in the 1540s. Today it features one of Suffolk's finest post-Reformation [[rood screen]]s, designed by Father Ernest Geldart and decorated by Patrick Osborne, and Enid Chadwick, and a rare [[Sacred Heart]] altar upon a [[Stuart period|Stuart]] Holy Table. It now lacks the small lead spire which once topped the tower.
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|+[[Church bell]]s of St Mary's Kettlebaston<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.suffolkbells.org.uk/towers/bells/kettlebaston1bells.html|title=The Suffolk Guild of Ringers, Kettlebaston Bells|website=www.suffolkbells.org.uk|access-date=2020-04-09}}</ref>
! Bell № !! Weight
!ate
!Founder
|-
| Treble || 5cwt
|1636
|John Darbie of [[Ipswich]]                  
|-
|Two
|6cwt
|1699
|Henry Pleasant of [[Sudbury, Suffolk|Sudbury]]
|-
|Tenor
|9wt 2qr
|1567
|Stephen Tonni II of [[Bury St Edmunds]]
|}

Regarded as a place of [[pilgrimage]] to the followers of the [[Anglo-Catholic]] movement from all over the UK, Kettlebaston was the liturgically highest of all Suffolk's Anglican churches. From 1930, until his retirement in 1964, Reverend Father Harold Clear Butler said Roman Mass every day, and celebrated High Mass and Benediction on Sundays. He also removed state notices from the porch, and refused to keep registers, or to recognise the office of the local [[Archdeacon of Sudbury]]. Despite opposition, the church finally received electric heating and lighting in 2014.