Architectural Features
Double-stepped castellated parapet with corner pinnacles and flushwork panels, C15.
C15 south porch with moulded kneelers to gable parapet.
Very fine C12 ironwork on south door in the form of foliated crosses.
Nave fenestration C15: tall 2 and 3- light windows with pointed segmental arches with stilted hoodmoulds.
Chancel c.1300 with blocked lancet at south-west corner and blocked priests door with raised cill.
North wall of aisle has three 2-light windows, much patched and renewed, but probably C14.
Elaborate early C19 arcading in chancel, echoing the early C14 tomb recess in the centre of the south wall: a cusped and pointed trefoil in the spandrel.
Within the recess, a memorial slab to Roger Castell in the chancel floor, many memorial slabs to the Bacon and Castell families including brasses to Margaret Castyll and John Castle and his wife Francis C17 and C18 slabs in nave floor.
St Andrew's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1338123 is situated in the grounds of Raveningham Hall > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1338001 between grazing pastures and the famous garden. The round tower dates from the early 14th century. The south door is decorated with three C13 wrought iron crosses > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1338248 but the church interior > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1338159 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1338219 is predominantly 19th century. The chancel contains a series of elaborately framed memorials > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1338164 to members of the Bacon family of Norfolk (the premier baronetcy of England). Remains from earlier times are the C15 octagonal font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1338232 and several brasses, one of which is to Margaret Castyll (d. 1483), the wife of one of Richard III's squires. She is shown with a dragon at her feet as her patron saint, and a little pet dog hides in the skirts of her gown. The church is open every day.
C14 piscina with petalled bowl in south wall of chancel.
Large free standing monument at south-west corner of nave to Edward Hodge : square base surmounted by urn, all in white marble.
Font C15, octagonal with four lions around the stem, and four figures and the signs of the Evangelists around the bowl.
TM3996 : St Andrew, Ravingham, Norfolk - Font