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St Edmund

St Edmund

Taverham

Norfolk

10.5.61. - I Parish Church, Medieval and later.

Architectural Features

C15 octagonal second stage, with 2-light Perpendicular bell openings.

Gargoyles and grotesques at angles level with string course.

To its east a 3 light Perpendicular window and a C14 2-light window with 'Y' tracery.

2 bay chancel with restored 2 light Decorated windows to south with C14 priest's door with ovolo and hollow chamfered reveals.

Medieval single framed scissor truss roof, probably C14.

Stained glass, c.1450 of Crucifixion and attendant effigies in north west nave window.

6 bay medieval timber screen with ogee Perpendicular tracery.

For a view of the church see > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1553477.

Altar rails constructed with C14 Reticulated tracery, probably salvaged from upper part of a Rood Screen.

For a view of the church see > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1553477.

© Evelyn Simak

Medieval choir stalls with traceried frontals.

Chalice brass to John Thorp, rector, died 1515, in chancel floor.