In pictures: Sir Francis Bacon remembered at St Michael’s Tudor Fayre

The life and times of Sir Francis Bacon were commemorated at a special Tudor Fayre in the church where the 17th-century philosopher and statesman is buried.

St Michael’s Church rolled back the centuries to celebrate 400 years since the death of a thinker whose ideas helped shape the modern world.

Renaissance man Bacon is widely regarded as the father of the scientific method, the approach to learning and discovery that led to many of the technological and medical advances we take for granted today.

One of various Bacon 400 events taking place this year, the church’s Tudor Fayre featured sword fights and musket firing by historic re-enactment group The Suffolk Free Company, Tudor games and refreshments, a flower extravaganza inside the church, Tudor music and dance, a hog roast from The Lower Red Lion, ‘Soak the Vicar’, face painting, stalls and performances of extracts from The Winding Stair – a play about Bacon and his rival Edward Coke – by local theatre company OVO.

Drone photos by Andy Lawrence.