Wool church
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A wool church is an English church financed primarily by donations from rich merchants and farmers who had benefitted from the medieval wool trade, hoping to ensure a place in heaven due to their largesse.
Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk, a classic wool church
Roof of St. Edmund's Church, Southwold, Suffolk
St. Peter and St. Paul, Lavenham, Suffolk
Flushwork
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In architecture, flushwork is decorative masonry work which combines on the same flat plane flint and ashlar stone. If the stone projects from a flat flint wall then the term is proudwork, as the stone stands "proud" rather than being "flush" with the wall.
Arms of Sir Guy Ferre (d.1323) in flushwork at Butley Priory, Suffolk
Elaborate 15th-century flint and limestone flushwork at Holy Trinity Church in Long Melford, Suffolk
Unusual fretwork tracery and flushwork, at Holy Trinity Church in Barsham, Suffolk
The Ethelbert Gate at Norwich Cathedral