Architectural Features
Clunch west gable with lower single domestic casement and upper stone splayed window, perhaps Anglo-Saxon.
South porch has C14 Decorated arch with drip mould
heads, arch dying into splays, stone quoins, brick kneelers and parapet,C17 rebuilding.
Inner stone Norman arch with simple imposts and chamfers, repeated in opposed south door.
The inner doorway dates from Norman times, it is sheltered by the later, Early English north porch. A church in Waterden is mentioned in the 1087 Domesday Survey. All Saints' church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051487 is situated at the end of a short track to the south of Waterden Farm and adjoined by the Old Rectory in the south-east, surrounded by fields and pastures. Its walls contain unsolved mysteries of the past such as a number of blocked windows below the eaves on each side of the nave, which might date from Saxon times. Traces can be seen of a former south aisle > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051511 which had three bays, and the tower, if there ever was one, is long gone. Both north and south doorways > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051515 are Norman, resting on imposts that are commonly associated with Saxon work. The nave houses a number of Victorian box pews > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051530 which are presently stored in one corner until repair works on the floor are completed. There are several C19 ledger slabs in the chancel, all commemorating members of the local Money Hill family > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051540. The small village of Waterden was situated in a rather damp little valley which may explain its name. At the end of the 16th century the manor was acquired by Sir Edward Coke of Holkham. A hall seems to have been constructed in the 16th century which was replaced in 1781 by the buildings of Waterden Farm > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051159 which survive to this day. Aerial photographs reveal crop marks and in combination with surviving earthworks give evidence that the village was grouped around a long green where four lanes meet. The reasons for the destruction of the community and desertion of the village have as yet to be established.
Nave south has 3 built up aisle arches blocked with clunch and 2 inserted c.1600 chamfered brick mullioned and transomed windows with drip mould heads.
Chancel has single north side lancet, 2 south side windows,one blocked, one with inserted brick lancets, c.1600.
East window square headed quadruple brick lancets c.1600.
Boarded arched roof with simple strut trusses of C17 or C18.
Box pews and cut down former decker pulpit.
Chancel south side has tracery of blocked C14 window.