St Augustine

A small Norman church with evidence for an apsidal east end before the chancel was extended in C13.

A plain C11 or C12 south doorway with chamfered imposts

A pointed lancet in north wall of late C12/early C13.

A C13 window in the chancel has a double splay.

A trefoil-headed chancel window of c.1300 has a pair of squinch arches over the sedilia, and linked with it is a trefoil-headed piscina.

The canted and plastered continuous roof over nave and chancel appears medieval but may be a C19 renewal

there are two encased medieval tiebeams.

An unusually early rood screen of c.1330-50: turned baluster shafts, ogee- headed lights with dagger tracery.

Limestone font, the stem perhaps of c.1300: octagonal with broach stops alternating with stops having sunk cusping. (The bowl was renewed in C19).

TM0160 : St Augustine, Harleston - Font

© John Salmon