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All Saints

All Saints

Hilborough

Norfolk

Medieval and later.

Architectural Features

C15 west tower with diagonal buttresses.

Fine west doorway with carved figures in spandrels and flanked by niches with miniature rib vaults and flushwork arcading.

Shield and tracery frieze above with carved arms to centre.

Elaborate carved stepped parapet with tracery and corner pinnacles.

C15 south porch with chequered flushwork and a flushwork plinth of repeated letter "M" with a crown.

Early C14 chancel with a 3-light Y-traceried south window and very fine similar east window of 5 lights.

Similar chancel arch set one bay west of original (C14) position partially obscuring a pair of piers.

Early C14 4-bay arcades of 2 hollow-chamfered orders on quatrefoil piers.

Easternmost responds with carved corbels supporting innermost order.

C15 nave roof with mutilated carved hammer beams and corbels, arch braced wall posts and moulded principals.

Chancel also with a restored C15 arch braced roof.

C14 aumbry to north side of chancel with pedimental hood mould.

Fine C15 nave pews with carved poppy head bench ends and traceried backs.

Restored octagonal font with geometrically traceried panels.