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St Ethelbert

St Ethelbert

Bergh Apton

Norfolk

THURTON CHURCH LOKE TG 30 SW 2/57 Church of St.Ethelbert 5.9.60 - I Parish church C12 with C14

Architectural Features

C16 remodelling.

C14 2-light west window.

Upper part of tower reconstructed in flint and red brick, probably early C16

Nave and chancel windows generally early C14

hood moulds with animal carving and head stops.

fine C12 south door with three orders of shafts with scallop capitals, arch with zig-zag and roll mouldings and a hood mould of two orders of alternating scallops set at right angles to the wall.

3-light C14 reticulated east window with hood mould on head stops.

Simple C12 north doorway of two orders, the opening blocked in red brick.

C17 communion rail with turned balusters and square newels with attached half-shafts.

On the south wall of the chancel a monument to Capt. Samuel Margerum and other members of the Margerum family

a pedimented white marble slab with a carving of a three-masted sailing ship.

On the north chancel wall, a wall monument in the form of an obelisk to Ann Cotton d. 1781 and Miss Sarah Margerum 1835.

Plain octagonal font, possibly C17.

Many pieces of re-set glass both English and foreign

the east window is said to contain glass brought from Rouen Cathedral by Lady Beauchamp of Langley Park.