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St Edmund

St Edmund

Lingwood

Norfolk

Some C12 work

Architectural Features

fabric mainly C14

C15, restored in 1872.

Square C15 west tower with diagonal staged buttresses

TG3708 : South Burlingham, St. Edmund's Church: Blocked up Norman north doorway (detail) 1

Norman north and south doorways

TG3708 : South Burlingham, St. Edmund's Church: Blocked up Norman north doorway (detail) 1

© Michael Garlick

the south has one order of shafts with capitals carved with volutes and chevron-moulded arch.

Bench on east side of porch supported on re-set carved stone corbels.

South nave and chancel windows of c.1300 : 2-light with 'Y' tracery.

C15 nave roof with roll-moulded arch-braced principals and embattled cornice.

Fine C15 pulpit with 8 panels of original colour and the inscription "Inter natos mulierum non serrexit major Johanne Baptista." The panels are finely traceried and divided by tall buttresses.

Early C17 backboard and octagonal tester.

On the north nave wall a faint C14 painting of St. Christopher.

Octagonal C13 font with open trussed ogee cover.

Good set of nave benches with poppyhead ends and carvings of animals and figures on arm rests.

C17 communion rail with turned posts and balusters.

Choir stalls with head carvings on poppyhead ends.