All Saints Church, Crowfield

I've featured churches for the last two weeks so thought I would carry on the theme today.
Crowfield is a tiny village to the North of Ipswich The church is in a most wonderful setting, you approach it on foot via a leafy track (no cars can get to within 100 yards of it) and at the moment Primroses and Violets cover the churchyard. It has a moat on one side of the churchyard, the old manor house that the moat surrounded was lost many years ago but the moat remains.
The church is the only remaining timber framed church in Suffolk. The nave was built in the 14th century of stone with a stone lined roof. In the 15th century the chancel was added. The timber framed bell turret was replaced by a cupola with a domed top and the south porch was added. In 2004 repairs were carried out to the spirelet and a weather vane was added with a crow as the feature.
In the Domesday Book of 1086 Crowfield was recorded in latin as Crofelda. The Anglo Saxons called it Croftfield - meaning a small enclosure. It is thought the name Crowfield came about through translation errors.
A delightful little church to visit, especially on a beautiful sunny afternoon.