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All Saints

All Saints

Thornham

Norfolk

C13, C15 and 1877.

Architectural Features

C15 west tower having traceried plinth with moulded string course, sound-chamber level string course, late C19 bell chamber stage with plain parapet.

date 1635 on south buttress, futher inscriptions on south side.

Interior : south porch with north and south side stone topped benches, Perpendicular niche on north side of door, damaged holy water stoup, flat boarded C15 ceiling with ribs and bosses.

C13 Early English south door re-used, 2 orders of colonnettes with bases

caps, double arches, with C15 wooden traceried headed door with central ogee headed traceried wicket.

5 bay nave arcade of C13 re-assembled in C15

alternate rounded or octagonal piers with moulded bases and capitals, double hollow chamfered arches with label stops with carved heads, all heightened by the insertion of C15 octagonal moulded bases.

C15 clerestory stage with fine C15 wooden arched braced hammerbeam roof with moulded principals, purlins and ridge, 10 hammerbeams springing alternately from semi-octagonal wall posts on carved corbel heads or from the apex of the longitudinal arched braced wall plates.

4-centred tower door with niches and fleurons to intrados, traces of C16 or C17 lettered texts above.

Arched braced C15 roofs with moulded principals and battlemented decoration to wall plates on outer walls.

C15 octagonal stone font with traceried stem with angle colonnettes with bulbous bases with ogee heads, bowl with coats of arms with some polychrome traces with heraldic shields, 3 stage stone base 1905.

Fine carved set of C15 poppyhead benches with carved arms, one either side at west, 6 at east.

Panelled pulpit dated 1631 on C19 stem.

Dado only of rood screen, 6 lights either side divided into 2 panels with elaborate traceried heads and bases, much polychromy and fine painted figures of 12 saints and 12 Old Testament prophets dated 1488 with names of donors James Miller and Clarice his wife.