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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Great Yarmouth

Norfolk

Founded in association with a Benedictine Priory 1101 by Bishop Herbert de Losinga and completed in 1119.

Architectural Features

The base of the tower is early C12, the remainder rebuilt in stages throughout C13.

Derelict state in C17 and C18: north nave aisle removed 1705, replaced 1847 by JH Hakewill.

EXTERIOR: the west front presents three gables, the central one lit through three early C13 lancets over an arched and moulded doorway.

The north nave aisle has seven three-light Perpendicular windows of C20 origin and a re-used C13 doorway with multiple roll mouldings and a string course carried over it.

The tower has an arcade of C12 arches, then a string course below round-arched windows lighting the ringing chamber.

Chancel pulpitum with two arched C13 doors decorated with quatrefoils in the jambs and in the arch and with encircled quatrefoils in the spandrels.

Norman octagonal font with a 12-sided bowl with waterleaf decoration from Highway, Wiltshire.

Panelled pulpit also from St George's.