‘In the porch was a gravestone, with part of an inscription, viz Isabelle Regina, in memory no doubt of some of that queen's servants, or retinue, which induced some persons to fancy that she herself was here buried.’ (Blomefield 9.57).

1371, Peter de Bedingfield left 6s 8d to the making of a new porch (NRO NCC Heydon 18).

1371, Roger Northwold, rector, requested burial in the church porch (NRO NCC Heydon 16).

1374, Robert Mayn left instruction for the making of a porch and window on the south side (NRO NCC Heydon 39).

1375, Dionysia de Ty wished ‘that a porch be made over my buried place [if my goods allow]’ (NRO NCC Heydon 94).

1385, Thomas Caus requested burial in the church porch (corpus meu’ ad sepeliend’ in porticu eccl[es]ie de Hokham) and left 20s to its emendation (NRO NCC Harsyk 60).

1397, Agnes Fulbone left 5s to the emendation of the porch (NRO NCC Harsyk 242).

‘On the porch of the church were the arms of France, semi of de luces, and of England quarterly, also the arms of St Benet's Abbey, - sable, crozier in pale, between two ducal coronets, or.’ (Blomefield 11.79).

1401, Robert Davey de Ashfield bequeathed £20 to finishing the porch. (Norman Scarfe, Suffolk in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge, 1986), 161).

1405, Henry Notyngham's memorial brass reads: ‘Henry Notyngham and hys wyffe lye here Yat maden this chirche stepull and quere’ (Cattermole and Cotton, 252). The ground stage of the tower (or steeple) at Holme serves as the porch.

‘At the west end stands a four square tower, and was built, as I take it, (by the arms) in the reign of Henry VI.