Architectural Features
Blocked Thegns door to former gallery on south wall of nave, the earliest English example . Fittings: C13 arched Piscina in south chancel wall
Jacobean pulpit given by Sir Francis Vincent in 1620: Heptagonal body with souding board suspended from elaborate worught iron ties, standing on central column with seven wooden volutes leading to seven monster finials
Lectern: English eagle on Baroque barley-sugar stem
Simple C17 communion rails-c1630
C13 oak chest
Mid C15 Altar painting- Flemish Annunciation
Stained glass: East window- Series from Costessey Hall , Norfolk, in central light, outer panels from Cassiobury
C15 English King and further C15 and C16 glass in chancel and Norbury Chapel
C13 fragments of Adoration of the Lamb
Monuments: over south door: Mary Jane Phillips
Black and white marble obelisk with draped female figure by E Galfin
Norbury Chapel: Built to commemorate the victory at the Battle of Bosworth and contains many fine monuments , including : North Wall- To Sir Francis Vincent
Died 1735, monument 1762
Flesh coloured alabaster , black and gilt decoration with brass plate
Also brass to Ellen Bray
Dated 1516 with figure in swaddling clothes
Arch between chancel and chapel: Brass to Anne Norbury
Standing figure 15 inches high with eight children at her feet
Central niche with flanking pilasters containing keneeling figure of the knight
Profile relief figures in plinth with strapwork decoration
Chancel: Brass to Sir John D'Abernon, died 1277
The oldest English brass.,6 feet 6inche long
Figure of Knight 5 foot long under ogee canopy with lion to his feet
Mary is one of the very few seignorial churches to have survived from Saxon origins and still display the succeeding developments