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St Botolph

St Botolph

Shingham

Norfolk

Medieval and later.

Architectural Features

West wall with one C14 cusped lancet and a former bell cote above.

South wall with a Norman doorway of 3 orders with chevron, roll moulding and chip carving.

Chip carved hood mould on beast's head label stops.

South wall windows consist of a loop with 2-centred head, a wide lancet, a 2-light cusped Y-traceried window and a C15 2-light window with flat head.

East window C14 of 3 lights with reticulated tracery.

C13 roll moulded piscina at east end and a small arched aumbry opposite.

Some fine late Medieval benches with poppy head ends and traceried backs.

One surviving figurative arm rest carving of a dog and shepherd retaining traces of original paint.

St Botholph's is a redundant church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642193 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642214 that is now privately owned.  The surrounding churchyard, however, is still in use.  At the beginning of the 20th century the nave was roofless and the chancel served as a mortuary chapel.  The building has since been re-roofed with sheets of copper which have turned green. The small church dates from Norman times and it has retained the finely carved Norman south doorway, with bands of chevrons, a diaper pattern and an angle roll decorated with stars > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642200.  The diagonal buttresses at each end of the building >  http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642207 are medieval as are the C15 octagonal font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642231 and the C15 pews > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642225 which survived despite the nave having been roofless for some time.  The east pew is the only one with its arm rest intact.  It depicts the figure of a shepherd with his crook, and his dog at his feet > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642226.  The carving has retained some of its original paint.  The double-decker pulpit is Jacobean (C17) as are the solid altar rails > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642218.

C17 2-tier pulpit with a polygonal preaching box.

St Botholph's is a redundant church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642193 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642214 that is now privately owned. The surrounding churchyard, however, is still in use. At the beginning of the 20th century the nave was roofless and the chancel served as a mortuary chapel. The building has since been re-roofed with sheets of copper which have turned green. The small church dates from Norman times and it has retained the finely carved Norman south doorway, with bands of chevrons, a diaper pattern and an angle roll decorated with stars > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642200. The diagonal buttresses at each end of the building > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642207 are medieval as are the C15 octagonal font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642231 and the C15 pews > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642225 which survived despite the nave having been roofless for some time. The east pew is the only one with its arm rest intact. It depicts the figure of a shepherd with his crook, and his dog at his feet > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642226. The carving has retained some of its original paint. The double-decker pulpit is Jacobean (C17) as are the solid altar rails > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642218.

© Evelyn Simak

Carved lunettes and fluting to clerk's desk and finely carved friezes to preaching box.

C17 communion rails with turned baluster shafts.