Architectural Features
brick dressings to quoins above bell openings, embattled parapet with brick and flint flushwork panels, brick string course with two gargoyles to west.
south doorway with continuous double chamfered moulding, large figure stops to hood facing inwards of crowned head to left and mitred head to right
C14 chancel arch with semi-circular responds, double hollow chamfered arch with hood mould.
South nave wall with blocked Cll lancet to centre and blocked Cll doorway high to west, large wall painting of St. Christopher
small wall painting of St. John to north of chancel arch.
bowl supported by eight angels
Shelly marble slab to centre nave with indent for monumental brass to a civilian c1500.
23cm yellow brick floor tiles.
The church lies within the south-east angle of the vallum of the Roman town of Venta/Icenorum.
St Edmund's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1352163 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1352178 is situated in the south-east corner of Venta Icenorum, surrounded by the walls of this excavated Roman town, and is documented to have been in use for more than 950 years. A church stood on this site in the reign of Kind Edward the Confessor (1042-1066). The knapped flint tower dates from the 14th century. Inside, the church has two very fainted C15 wall paintings, and the octagonal font with carved lions at its stem > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1352182 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1352185 dates from this time also. Roman bricks taken from the old town walls have been used for repair work on the church over the centuries. This church is kept locked but a key is available. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caistorstedmund/caistorstedmund.htm