Museum St Mary's, Akenham, Suffolk, IP1 6TQ

Aptly nicknames 'St Mary's in the Fields', Akenham church is hidden up a track and through fields, and remains rural and remote despite its location near to the edge of Ipswich.  This small and simple flint towered church dates mainly from the later Middle Ages, apart from the brick south chapel added in the 16th or 17th century.  The solitary gravestone to the north of the church of a two year old boy, who died in 1878, helped to alter the Burial Laws of England.

The interior is simple but beautiful and contains a wonderful carved font with traceried panels around the bowl.  A piscina in the chapel and a blocked north doorway in the nave were uncovered during repairs.