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St Thomas

Architectural Features

C14 western tower with diagonal buttresses.

C14 2-light bell-openings with' very low transoms forming square lights which are filled with knapped flint.

C14 south doorway with dying mouldings and carved label stops.

C13 chancel with 3 lancets and a 3-light Y-traceried east window.

St Thomas' church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889199 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889241 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889282 is located beside The Street > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889136 - the main thoroughfare through the eastern part of Foxley; in the 1990s the village was split into two sections by the construction of the A1067 (Norwich Road) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889166. The church has a late 13th century chancel; the box pews and two-decker pulpit (seen here) date from the 17th century. Only four painted panels remain on the C15 rood screen > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889250 and these can easily be overlooked, because they are on the doors which are usually being kept open (with the panels facing east). The panels depict the Latin Doctors of the Catholic Church: St Augustine, St Gregory, St Jerome and St Ambrose; the small kneeling figures depict the donors > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889263 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889265. The porch > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889229 was painted in the 19th century and the west gallery dates from the same time. The font is C14 with a C17 cover > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889286. The church is kept locked but a key is available on request from nearby. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/foxley/foxley.htm

Double decker pulpit with a C17 clerk's desk'and pulpit box probably Victorian.

St Thomas' church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889199 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889241 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889282 is located beside The Street > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889136 - the main thoroughfare through the eastern part of Foxley; in the 1990s the village was split into two sections by the construction of the A1067 (Norwich Road) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889166. The church has a late 13th century chancel; the box pews and two-decker pulpit (seen here) date from the 17th century. Only four painted panels remain on the C15 rood screen > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889250 and these can easily be overlooked, because they are on the doors which are usually being kept open (with the panels facing east). The panels depict the Latin Doctors of the Catholic Church: St Augustine, St Gregory, St Jerome and St Ambrose; the small kneeling figures depict the donors > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889263 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889265. The porch > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889229 was painted in the 19th century and the west gallery dates from the same time. The font is C14 with a C17 cover > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889286. The church is kept locked but a key is available on request from nearby. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/foxley/foxley.htm

© Evelyn Simak

5 box pews to east and 10 crudely carved poppy-head bench ends (probably C16).

C14 octagonal font with quatrefoil panels.

C17 communion rail.

Medieval south door with fielded vertical panels and cover strips.

Fragments of medieval stained glass in north-west nave window.