St Mary's the Virgin church with its impressive tower, each side of the tower has an inscription, these read: GLORY TO GOD, IN THE HIGHEST, PEACE ON EARTH and GOOD WILL TO MEN. It is considered Woolpit's crowning glory with a marvellous porch and one of the most magnificent double hammer beam roofs.

 

 

 

The double-hammerbeam roof is not the loveliest in the county, but it is a good one, with over 200 angels - all but one of them the earliest major work of the Suffolk craftsman Henry Ringham, carved in 1844 to replace originals destroyed in the 17th century.

This is strictly speaking a "false double-hammerbeam" because the upper beam is merely decorative, not load-bearing. There are only eight such roofs in existence, all to be found in west Suffolk, and all the work of the firm of Jonathan and Thomas Rollesby, who set up their workshop at Bacton about 1412: the Woolpit roof was made about 1460.