Architectural Features
Door of c.1190 with round arched head re-erected in north aisle.
Interior : 3 bay north arcade, C14, octagonal piers with bases and capitals, double hollow chamfered arches.
Important C12 font, re-erected on C19 solid piers, rectangular, stone, with labours of 12 months of year to 3 sides, friezes with bars, foliage etc. Figures under arches : Januarius man with a drinking horn
St Mary's church has an Anglo-Saxon round tower with a lead cap > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/865864. Both nave and chancel are of Early English (C13) origin but the church was extensively restored during the 18th and 19th centuries > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/865869 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/865872. However, there are a number of medieval survivals, such as the fragments of medieval glass in the porch windows, reset in windows below the tower and also in the west window of the north aisle > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/865874 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/865876. The greatest treasure of the church is the rare Norman 'seasonal' font, made from Barnack stone from Rutland; the 12 carved panels show a calendar of work for the farming year - seen here; see also > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/865878 - each representing a typical activity of the respective month, with a frieze of foliage and lions above. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burnhamdeepdale/burnhamdeepdale.htm St Mary's is one on a trail of four round towered churches in north-west Norfolk, inviting to explore different parts of the Norfolk countryside in search of round towered churches and their links with the North Sea Viking Legacy.
(F)ebruarius : Seated figure warming himself
Maius :Figure either beating bounds at Rogationtide or Risen Christ with banner
Decembris : 4 seated figures feasting at a table.
Rood figures 1932 by Sir Waller Tapper.
East window High Victorian, stained, 1873 good C15 glass fragments collected in porch north and south windows, tower west window, north aisle west window, in square squint by pulpit, north vestry east window.
Stained glass of 1876 by the Worcester glazier and architect Frederick Preedy in the east window of St Mary's Church.