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St George

St George

South Acre

Norfolk

Medieval and later.

Architectural Features

C15 west tower with diagonal buttresses.

C14 doorway of two wave- moulded orders beneath a hood mould with carved head label stops.

Chancel with a fine late-Medieval east window of four Y-traceried lights beneath a very shallow 4-centred arch.

3-bay main arcade with two C14 or C15 bays on octagonal pier and polygonal responds supporting arches of two chamfered orders.

C14 westernmost bay of two wave-moulded orders on filletted semicircular responds.

Restored hammer-beam nave roof with moulded principals and purlins and carved bosses.

C15 arch-braced aisle roof with embattled wall plate.

C12 font consisting of three shafts around a circular central pier supporting cushion capitals emerging from a square section bowl.

Very tall C15 font cover mostly a C20 replica.

Extremely elaborate flamboyant tracery with reticulated motifs, fleurons and ogee arches with differing leaf carvings to each bay and turned shafts.

Late-medieval benches with embattled backs poppy head ends and eight damaged carved arm rests representing lions.

Three late-medieval brasses, of particular note in north chapel representing Sir John Harskye and his wife Katherine.

C17 marble and alabaster monument to Sir Edward Barkham and his wife of exceptional quality with two full-size effigies on a sarcophagus with Tuscan columns and weepers.

Overmantel with heraldic aedicule flanked by a pair of carved statues representing Victory and Death.

C14 glass fragments in north chapel.

The chapel is divided from the north aisle by fine C17 wrought iron railings.