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St. Edmund

St. Edmund

Fritton

Norfolk

C12, with nave enlarged to south C14.

Architectural Features

Three two-light C14 nave windows, each light trefoiled and with a pointed quatrefoil vesica.

The chancel is lit through two C15 two-light windows under square heads.

Square font of 1855 in Norman style (copied from that of Hartland, Devon).

On north nave wall a large C14 painting of St. Christopher.

On south-east window jamb of nave a painting of St. John the Baptist, also C14.

Plain but intact early C17 triple decker pulpit.

Mid C14 chancel screen of three ogeed bays each side of central opening.

In the chancel are plain early C14 stalls with vestigial button poppyheads.

Chancel arch retains scroll paintings and other non-figurative decoration, repainted 1927 but of C12 type.

Groin vaulted sanctuary with substantial remains of animal and figurative wall paintings, all C12.