All Saints Church, Shelley and St Peter and St Marys' Church, Stowmarket, Suffolk

 
 

Techniques employed:

Ground Probing Radar (GPR)

Client: Suffolk County Council

A GPR survey was carried out to locate any vaults that may exist beneath the floors of All Saints Church, Shelley and St Peter and St Marys Church, Stowmarket

Two areas have been identified in both churches as the possible location of underground vaults.
Both areas in All Saints Church are smaller than 2m long, so that in order to be large enough to be burial vaults they would need to continue outside the survey area.

St Peter and St Marys Church has one large, strong anomalous area which is suggestive of a substantial underground arch with associated structural remains. One smaller weaker anomaly also exists which may pertain to a vault style feature.

 All Saints Church, Shelley
All Saints Church, Shelley showing part of the area surveyed
 

 

St Peter & St Marys Church, Stowmarket
St Peter & St Marys Church, Stowmarket, showing part of the area surveyed		 Broad crested anomaly
Broad crested anomaly - possible evidence of an underground arch
     
 
East Anglian Daily Times photograph

Another objective of the surveys was to find DNA samples which could be identified as belonging to relatives of Captain Bartholomew Gosnald who founded the first English-speaking colony in the New World. This was reported in the local newspaper, the East Anglian Daily Times. The article can be seen by clicking here. The above photograph also appeared in the East Anglian Daily Times.
  REPRODUCED BY COURTESY OF SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE EAST ANGLIAN DAILY TIMES

 

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