Architectural Features
C17 brick north porch with crow-stepped gable
The chancel contains fine monuments to the Paston family : Sir Clement Paston : an alabaster tomb-chest with figure in full armour reclining on a half-rolled mat kneeling figure of his wife Alice.
Grey and white marble monument to Lady Katherine Paston, wife to the 4th Sir William Paston (d. 1637 in childbirth). St Michael's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/880372 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/880408 is located adjacent to the grounds of Oxnead Hall, surrounded by a woodland and obscured from view. The building dates from the 13th century but was added on to and restored in the 16th and again in the 18th century. The top of the tower was added in the 16th century and the now blocked red-brick north porch > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/880377 dates from the 17th century; 18th century graffiti > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/880385 can be seen carved into the wooden door. The stepped east gable is dated 1711. A chapel once located on the northeastern end is now in ruins. The font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/880411 is C17 but the alabaster tomb chest to Sir Clement Paston (d. 1597 - he built the adjoining Oxnead Hall) with the kneeling figure of his wife Alice (d. 1608), is C16 > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/880391 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/880396. Several 17th and 18th century brasses can be seen mounted on the south chancel wall > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/880406. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/oxnead/oxnead.htm