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St Mary

St Mary

Hillington

Norfolk

TF 72 NW 3/25 HILLINGTON CONGHAM ROAD (east side) Church of St. Mary 15.8.60 II* Parish church C15 and 1824, uncoursed flint with some Sandringham sandstone and carstone, stone dressings, pantiles.

Architectural Features

Chancel restored 1892: mainly of Sandringham sandstone, plain tiles, diagonal buttresses, blocked doorways to north and south with buttress and 2 C19 2-light openings with panel tracery

C19 chapel to north of chancel in broken flint with moulded brick cornice, plain tiles, angle buttresses, gable parapets and cross, large north 3-light window with decorated tracery.

Interior: nave and south aisle now one, coved ceiling, polygonal respond of former arcade to west, chancel arch of 1892 rising from stiff leaf corbels, chancel roof arch braced with wind braces, Tudor flower frieze and angel corbels.

Tall tower arch C15, with polygonal shafts supporting chamfered mouldings, continuous hollow chamfers, outer slender round shafts

tower stair door ledged and battened, C15 arch head renewed.

Octagonal C15 font beneath chancel arch, alternate blank arcade and shields to faces, oak panelled pulpit with arch curved hand rail, perhaps part of 3 decker pulpit

Monuments: 3 C18 marble altar tombs in north chapel to members of ffolkes family

north chancel mural monument, 1611, to Richard Hovel and wife, son Richard and wife, of alabaster with Renaissance arches and two pairs of figures each facing each other across faldstools

pair of large mural marble tablets in south chancel to Mary Browne 1699-1763 with fluted Ionic pilasters and segmental head, to Sir Wm.

C17 wooden cupboard to north-west nave, 3 open panels each of 3 rows of turned bars.

Mural marble monument in south nave, 1826, signed H. Hopper, to Lady Lucretia Georgiana Browne West depicted as life size figure holding her posthumous son, she died in Bombay shortly after her son who died at birth.