Architectural Features
South front of south transept fenestrated in 3 tiers : 3 segmental ground floor windows, the outer 2 with grotesque figure carving over arches
String course below clerestory is studded with animal or figurative carvings from which rise polygonal shafts with capitals.
C13 triple arched sedilia in chancel south wall : round shafts with moulded capitals support trefoiled arches with dog-tooth decoration.
Octagonal C15 font.
A much smaller Saxon church once stood on the site of St Clement's. The work on the building as we see it today > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1830713 started in the mid-14th century. The cruciform church - it has a free standing, completely detached tower > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1830996 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1831001 at its north-west end - is often referred to as the Cathedral of the Marshes: it is 51 metres long and believed to be the longest in Norfolk. The probably most noteworthy feature of St Clement's church is the painted font cover, the doors of which can be opened like a tabernacle to reveal a group of paintings > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1831059. It is believed to date from the 16th century and rests on top of a C15 octagonal font. All other medieval features and furnishings were replaced during a Victorian restoration.
C17 font cover in 2 stages.
A much smaller Saxon church once stood on the site of St Clement's. The work on the building as we see it today > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1830713 started in the mid-14th century. The cruciform church - it has a free standing, completely detached tower > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1830996 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1831001 at its north-west end - is often referred to as the Cathedral of the Marshes: it is 51 metres long and believed to be the longest in Norfolk. The probably most noteworthy feature of St Clement's church is the painted font cover, the doors of which can be opened like a tabernacle to reveal a group of paintings > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1831059. It is believed to date from the 16th century and rests on top of a C15 octagonal font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1831054. All other medieval features and furnishings were replaced during a Victorian restoration.
Lower stage is octagonal drum with clusters of 3 painted columns supporting carved frieze.
Upper portion of font cover in 3 diminishing tiers of Gothic buttressing, elaborately cusped and pierced through openwork tracery.
Wall monument in chancel north wall to Dorothy Edwards 1721.
To west an alabaster wall monument to John and Mary Ascham 1704.
North transept has painted panel with the Creed 1635.
South transept Psalm 23, also 1635.
Royal arms over north door to Queen Anne.