All Saints

C15 gabled south porch, the arch roll and wave moulded with fleurons below brick relieving arch and statutory niche.

2 flat buttresses to nave, one C14 2-light ogeed window with reticulation within larger unit.

3-light 4-centred C15 panel window next east.

2 3-light C15 panel windows to north nave

C14 ogeed north door with 2 orders of wave mouldings.

Remarkable for complete survival of furnishings of 1630's following fire of 1633.

Gallery screen under tower with 2 doors, dated 1637, and 2 tiers turned balusters.

Panelled triple decker pulpit under tester, the pulpit with scrolled brackets supporting combined cornice and reading desk.

Nave roof also 1630's : tie beams with roll mouldings and tongue stops below wall plate

Square poor box on column dated 1638.

Late C14 octagonal font, the bowl decorated with tracery motifs in gables.

All Saints > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400659 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400667 is situated at the western end of the hamlet, located on an elevation above the road which winds its way around it. After a fire gutted the church in 1633 it was rebuilt with the work having been completed in 1635 - the completion date was carved into the tower screen. The church has remained unchanged since then, including the Jacobean three-decker pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400673 which is the only one of its kind in Norfolk still standing in the position which was favoured immediately after the Reformation. The octagonal C14 font bowl has a tracery decoration and a battlemented rim > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400682. It stands below the wall painting depicting St Christopher > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400677 which was uncovered in 1901. The box pews > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400669 are graduated in size with the largest being the one which was used by Willby Hall, with their family arms > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400671 displayed on the wall above it. The church has a set of royal arms to Charles I (1625-49) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400684 and an elaborately carved iron-bound poor box > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400680 bears the date 1683. The church is kept locked.

© Evelyn Simak

Timber Royal Arms of Charles I over south door.

Remains of wall painting of St. Christopher on north nave wall.

All Saints > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400659 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400667 is situated at the western end of the hamlet, located on an elevation above the road which winds its way around it. After a fire gutted the church in 1633 it was rebuilt with the work having been completed in 1635 - the completion date was carved into the tower screen. The church has remained unchanged since then, including the Jacobean three-decker pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400673 which is the only one of its kind in Norfolk still standing in the position which was favoured immediately after the Reformation. The octagonal C14 font bowl has a tracery decoration and a battlemented rim > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400682. It stands below the wall painting depicting St Christopher which was uncovered in 1901. The box pews > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400669 are graduated in size with the largest being the one which was used by Willby Hall, with their family arms > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400671 displayed on the wall above it. The church has a set of royal arms to Charles I (1625-49) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400684 and an elaborately carved iron-bound poor box > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400680 bears the date 1683. The church is kept locked.

© Evelyn Simak