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St Edmund

St Edmund

Horningtoft

Norfolk

C13 and later.

Architectural Features

Plain tile and concrete tile roofs.

4 C13 lancet windows (and one modern replica to west) and 2 contemporary opposing 2-light Y-traceried windows.

5 lancets to chancel and a C13 priests door to south with single sections of dogtooth ornament at springings of 2-centred arch.

Hood mould with carved label stops.

C15 3-bay chancel screen with surviving tracery.

C17 hexagonal pulpit on single stem with carved consoles.

C17 prie- Dieu with elaborately carved pair of brackets and a guilloche moulded frieze panel.

Restored fragment of a C15 screen in chancel.

St Edmund's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1879071 lost its tower - replaced by a bell cote in Victorian times - in the late 1700s.  The building dates mainly from the 13th century, the simplicity of its interior being accented by altar frontal panels, reading desk > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1879094 and rood screen > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1879084 as well as wineglass pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1879089 - all of which decorated with matching modern paintwork adornments. The octagonal font with carved lions on its stem is original and dates from the 15th century.

Undamaged octagonal font with lions and angels holding shields in panels, angel bowl corbels and lions on stem.

St Edmund's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1879071 lost its tower - replaced by a bell cote in Victorian times - in the late 1700s. The building dates mainly from the 13th century, the simplicity of its interior being accented by altar frontal panels, reading desk > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1879094 and rood screen > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1879084 as well as wineglass pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1879089 - all of which decorated with matching modern paintwork adornments. The octagonal font with carved lions on its stem is original and dates from the 15th century.

© Evelyn Simak