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St Edmund

St Edmund

Emneth

Norfolk

EMNETH CHURCH ROAD TF 40 NE (north side) 5/2 Church of St. Edmund 11.8.51 G.V. I Parish church, c.1210 chancel, C15 nave, aisles and west tower, restored 1866.

Architectural Features

C13 chancel clasping angle buttresses obscured by C15 aisle extensions.

North aisle elaborated later C13 into 2 storey vestry.

C13 east window blocked and now pierced by 3 C19 square-headed windows, 2 to ground, one to upper floors.

Tower arch has roll to responds and capitals with carved angels.

Nave roof of moulded and crenellated tie beams on arched braces alternating with hammerbeams in form of angels bearing books and instruments of passion.

Wall posts drop to corbels, the posts enriched by carvings of Angels, Kings and Prophets.

Spandrels of tie beam braces with pierced tracery, the ties with 3 winged angels above crenellations.

C15 rood screen of 2 bays right and left of cusped and sub-cusped opening.

25 C16 plain poppyhead nave benches.

Octagonal C15 font with panelled stem and bowl decorated with tracery patterns, shields and figures bearing shields.

Double roll hood mould with central carved dog's head to north and rosette to south.

Standing momument in south chancel aisle to Thomas Hewar and wife by Nicholas Stone dated 1617.

In east wall of aisle and within the monument a rectangular niche contains recumbent effigy of a child.

On south wall of aisle wall monument to Thomas Hewar and wife 1585.