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Alysham THE BROADS King’s Lynn WEST NORFOLK Wroxham Dereham GREATER & THE FENS NORWICH Swafham YARMOUTH

Watton Downham Market BRECKS & Wymondham SOUTH NORFOLK & THETFORD FOREST WAVENEY VALLEY LoLowwestoft Attleborough

Thetford Harleston Diss

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* * I I II II GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE See website for keyholder details. keyholder for website See ggmbenefce.uk items for any visitor. any for items narvalleygroup.org.uk Lawrence St CASTLERISING, PE31 6AG TF 666248 GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn castlerising.churchnorfolk.com CLENCHWARTON, Margaret St PE34 Road, Church 20210 TF 58942 GRID REF: are when there Open Sundays other times. available services. Key on a site church if simple, A delightful, ered of has been on which worship that since the C13; one that proves best! Inbig is not always the Diocese of Ely. achurchnearyou.com/ church/14004/ Andrew St CONGHAM, PE32 1DT Lane, O Andrew’s f St TF 712236 GRID REF: CASTLE ACRE, St James St CASTLE ACRE, 2AE PE32 Acre, Castle Green, Stocks TF 815150 GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn & C15. in C14 altered church, A large Font high canopied 25 foot Contains and the Glass Pulpit Wine cover, all with the Dado of the Rood Screen, work in excellent medieval painted full of interesting condition. A church

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* * I I II II GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE and toilet, as the village has no village and toilet, to adapted has been church The hall. serve as a community space. achurchnearyou.com/ broughton-all-saints BRANCASTER, Virgin MarySt the PE31 8AW Lane, Broad TF 772438 GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn brancaster.churchnorfolk.com GRID REF: TF 769338 GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn dockingbenefce.co.uk Saints All BOUGHTON, PE33 9AQ Lane, Church 02220 TF 69993 GRID REF: by months, Open in winter until Easter but from appointment it is open on the end of September 9am - 5pm. & Sundays, Saturdays Victorian building on an earlier a It’s tower. with Grade II Listed footprint, some years removed pews were The enable the building of kitchenago to Church Road, PE33 9GF PE33 Road, Church TF 71217 05687 GRID REF: hours. Open daylight daily during with is a medieval church St Andrew’s some parts the C11. It from dating is one of two surviving in churches has unusual C17 box the village and organ pews and the only Halmshaw in Norfolk. achurchnearyou.com/ barton-bendish-st-andrew NEWTON, BIRCHAM Saints All HillHoney 6QR (B1153), PE31 BARTON BENDISH, BENDISH, BARTON Andrew St

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* * * * II II II II GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE BARMER, BAGTHORPE, norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk the Kerslake family by Frederick Preedy Preedy the Kerslake Frederick family by for cared in 1885. Redundant church in Park Trust. the Norfolkby Churches Barmer church. Road and walk to with local keyholder. & chancel arch. tower round C12 west a ruin by already Church C13 nave. as mausoleum for early C17. Restored Fakenham of Fakenham farm track by foot Road (B1454), PE31 8SP TF80903361 REF: GRID dusk in summer to Open dawn Otherwise arrangement months. by eld. Access on Access In the middle of a feld. in 1853. Redundant church cared cared in 1853. Redundant church Trust. the Norfolk by Churches for norfolkchurchestrust.org Open dawn to dusk. to Open dawn by (EarlyGothic revival English) church W J Donthorne Norman built 1853/54. preserved from is the only feature font which was demolished old church Bagthorpe Road, PE31 6QY PE31 Bagthorpe Road, 75993221 TM GRID REF: is also renowned for its baptismal shell. for is also renowned ggmbenefce.uk Samaritan, the Millennium window is and there wild fowers features the for window a commemorative church The Diamond Jubilee. Queen’s GRID REF: TF 698188 GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn built of fint and 1300s, Dating from The buttresses. with stepped stone the Good features east window ASHWICKEN, All Saints ASHWICKEN, All PE32 1LN O Lane, f Church Notice board is displayed at the end of at the is displayed Notice board is opened. the church the lane when anmer.churchnorfolk.com ANMER, St Mary the Virgin Mary St ANMER, the PE31 6RW Avenue, Of King’s TF 737295 GRID REF: during Summer. Opendays most CRIMPLESHAM, St Mary EAST RUDHAM, St Mary FLITCHAM, Main Road, Crimplesham, PE33 9EB Fakenham Road, PE31 8RA St Mary the Virgin GRID REF: TF 6553 0372 GRID REF: TF 827282 Church Lane, PE31 6BU The church is not open at regular Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TF 725266 times, but keys are available from rudham.churchnorfolk.com Open daily 8am - 5pm in Summer

churchwardens. GRADE LOCAL and 8am - dusk in Winter. * The tower and nave are built of II St Felix is believed to have founded the carstone. The entrance has a fne original church in 630 AD. Today there Norman arch with a Mass Dial beside EAST WALTON, St Mary is evidence of the C11 Norman church it. A painted Decalogue in the nave Church Lane, PE32 1PP in the building that sits between the shows the Commandments. GRID REF: TF 742161 Hillington and Sandringham estates. achurchnearyou.com/ Open dawn to dusk. fitcham.churchnorfolk.com GRADE WEST NORFOLK & THE FENS THE & NORFOLK WEST church/13981/ LOCAL ggmbenefce.uk * GRADE II P * GRADE II P I P FORDHAM, St Mary DENVER, St Mary EAST WINCH, All Saints Just of the A10 between Downham Ryston Road, PE38 0DP Church Lane, PE32 1JZ & Hilgay, CO6 3NL GRID REF: TF 6145 0164 GRID REF: TF 690162 GRID REF: TL 617 996 Open daily approx 9am - 3.30pm. Open on Saturdays from 10am - Open daily dawn to dusk. Nicely proportioned carstone building 4pm during BST, at other times Simple church of carstone, much with slender tower of C13 - C15. please contact the incumbent for reduced from its orignal size. Mainly Chancel sedilia and piscina 600 years the key. See church notice board C14, containing an excellent C13 old. Fine J W Walker Organ. Insignor of for details. foriated cofn lid. Cared for by The Knight Templar stone at East End. C15 church with parts dating from C12. Friends of Friendless Churches. achurchnearyou.com/ Battered C15 pews with C19 additions. friendsofriendlesschurches.org.uk church/13982/ GRADE Connections with Howard family * GRADE LOCAL II P * before they became Dukes of Norfolk. II P eastwinch.churchnorfolk.com

GRADE LOCAL FRING, All Saints * DERSINGHAM, St Nicholas II Fring Road, PE31 6SE Church Lane, PE31 6JB GRID REF: TF 735348 GRID REF: TF 693303 FINCHAM, St Martin Open weekends and Bank Holidays, Open dawn to dusk. High Street, PE33 9EL and daily in August. Built on the site of a Norman church, GRID REF: TF 68801 06458 dockingbenefce.co.uk it is one of the greatest churches of GRADE Open daily from 9am - 4.30pm. * the C14. Built using local carstone St Martin’s was rebuilt in about 1430. II P it houses a wonderfully decorated The screen and a stained glass chancel monument chest. window date from that time. There GAYTON THORPE, St Mary dersingham.churchnorfolk.com is a square Norman font. Some good PE32 1PN GRADE LOCAL Victorian stained glass. GRID REF: TF 745185 I P achurchnearyou.com/ Open dawn to dusk. fncham-st-martin ggmbenefce.uk

DOCKING, GRADE LOCAL GRADE St Mary the Virgin I P I P Church Place, PE31 8LW GRID REF: TF 765369 Open dawn to dusk. A large country church complete with a beautiful C14 font where Docking’s Saint Henry Walpole was baptised. dockingbenefce.co.uk

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6 WEST NORFOLK & THE FENS

HILLINGTON, St Mary

GAYTON, St Nicholas GREAT BIRCHAM, HARPLEY, St Lawrence Lynn Road B1145, PE32 1PF St Mary the Virgin Church Lane, PE31 6TN GRID REF: TF 730192 Church Lane, PE31 6XS GRID REF: TF 788260 Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TF 770325 Open dawn to dusk. A C13 Grade I listed building popular Open dawn to dusk. ggmbenefce.uk for weddings. Tower has an unusual dockingbenefce.co.uk GRADE domed roof creating a recognisable GRADE I P landmark and statues representing the I P symbols of the four Evangelists stand HEACHAM, at the corners instead of pinnacles. GREAT MASSINGHAM, St Mary the Virgin ggmbenefce.uk St Mary Hunstanton Road / Church Lane, GRADE LOCAL Station Road, PE32 2HX PE31 7HJ I P GRID REF: TF 798229 GRID REF: TF 681379 Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. GAYWOOD, St Faith Beautiful medieval church with an St Mary’s is a C13 church with many Gayton Road A1076, PE30 4DZ impressive porch. interesting architectural features. We GRID REF: TF 636203 ggmbenefce.uk have a particular association with

Open Monday to Friday GRADE LOCAL Pocahontas through her marriage to 9am - 12 noon. I P local squire John Rolfe. St Faith’s church dates back to the C14 stmarysheacham.webeden.co.uk but was largely rebuilt by W D Caroe in GRIMSTON, St Botolph GRADE LOCAL the early C20 in an Arts and Crafts style Gayton Road, PE32 1BH I P with fne woodwork by Norman Hitch. GRID REF: TF 721218 Nationally recognised C17 ‘Double Open dawn to dusk. Delivery’ paintings in nave depicting ggmbenefce.uk the Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. GRADE 1960s Corn Window by Rosemary I P Rutherford. The church ofers a warm welcome and a wide variety of worship styles. stfaithsgaywoodlep.org.uk

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KING’S LYNN Minster (St Margaret)

HILLINGTON, St Mary HOUGHTON-NEXT- INGOLDISTHORPE, Congham Road, PE31 6DQ HARPLEY, St Martin at Tours St Michael GRID REF: TF 723252 Houghton Hall, PE31 6TZ Of Shernborne Road, PE31 6PE Open weekends 8am to dusk. At all GRID REF: TF 793283 GRID REF: TF 690327 other times key available at High Church open during Houghton Hall Key available throughout year - House (next to the church). season (see website for details) directions posted on church door. Originally built before the Norman C12 church with C18 tower added C14 church with an elaborate Victorian Conquest but most of it dates from by Sir Robert Walpole. It is the village interior, including fne stained glass C15 with C19 alterations. Best known church though situated on the and pew end carvings. for its collection of monuments and Houghton Estate. Access via main gate. ingoldisthorpe.churchnorfolk.com

Snetzler pipe organ dating to 1750s. houghton.churchnorfolk.com GRADE * hillington.churchnorfolk.com GRADE II P

GRADE LOCAL I P * II P KING’S LYNN, All Saints HUNSTANTON, St Edmund Hillington Square, Church Lane, HOLME-NEXT-THE-SEA, Church Street, PE36 6BE PE30 5AE St Mary the Virgin GRID REF: TF 674410 GRID REF: TF 620195 Kirkgate , PE36 6LJ Open daily except Mondays. Open Saturdays 10am - 5pm GRID REF: TF 707434 Possibly the only church in the May - September and around Open dawn to dusk. country who's stained glass service times. saxonshorebenefceco.uk windows depict the life of our The 'Hidden Pearl of King's Lynn'.

GRADE patron, St Edmund Easily overlooked, the oldest church I P hunstanton.churchnorfolk.com in the town. Charming interior with

GRADE LOCAL anchorite's cell. Medieval painted II P screen and Great War stained glass memorials. allsaintskingslynn.org.uk

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8 KING’S LYNN, Minster LITTLE MASSINGHAM, NEWTON-BY-CASTLE ACRE, WEST NORFOLK & THE FENS (St Margaret) St Andrew St Mary & All Saints St Margaret’s Place, PE30 5DL Church Lane, PE32 2JT A1065, PE32 2BX GRID REF: TF 617198 GRID REF: TF 792241 GRID REF: TF 830155 Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. The Minster is situated in the historic Commonwealth Bomber Command Pre – Norman Church originally surroundings of the Saturday Market War Graves; Peddars Way at the cruciform, - transepts now missing. Place in the heart of King’s Lynn, bottom of Church Lane; Sunday Internally a Saxon rounded arch can ofering a welcome to pilgrims and services at 10am. still be seen, small fragments of wall visitors for over 900 years. The Priory ggmbenefce.uk paintings visible. church was founded in 1101. A GRADE LOCAL narvalleygroup.org.uk

Greater church; mostly C13 with fne I P GRADE LOCAL C14 woodwork and brasses. Fine C18 I P organ, C19 restorations; monumental MIDDLETON, St Mary reredos by Bodley. Lynn Road, PE32 1RD NORTH CREAKE, St Mary kingslynnminster.org GRID REF: TF 662159 Church Street, NR21 9JJ GRADE LOCAL For key please contact incumbent GRID REF: TF 854377 I P or churchwarden. Open dawn to dusk. middleton.churchnorfolk.com The church was mainly built in the KING’S LYNN, GRADE 1400s. The huge bell tower and bells * St John the Evangelist II P were restored in 2015. Blackfriars Road, PE30 1NT northcreake.churchnorfolk.com GRID REF: TF 622199 NARBOROUGH, All Saints GRADE LOCAL Please contact church ofce for Main Road, PE32 1TE I P visiting arrangements Monday to GRID REF: TF 746129 Friday 9am - 12noon. Dawn to dusk. NORTH RUNCTON, Victorian church built in 1846 and The church contains many memorials All Saints designed by Anthony Salvin. to the Spelman family. There are School Lane, PE33 0RB stjohnsinthewalks.com several memorials in the churchyard GRID REF: TF 646159 GRADE to pilots who few in WW1 from Not open on a regular basis, please II P Narborough Aerodrome. contact the keyholders whose narvalleygroup.org.uk details are on the noticeboard.

KING’S LYNN, GRADE LOCAL Following storm damage in 1703, the St Nicholas Chapel (CCT) I P present All Saints’ church was built to St Anne’s Street, PE30 1NH a design by the well known architect, GRID REF: TF 618204 NARFORD, Henry Bell, who also designed the Open Tuesday to Saturday St Mary the Virgin Custom House in nearby King’s Lynn. 10.30am - 4.30pm from mid June to Narford, PE32 1JA The outcome is a church, unique in end of September. GRID REF: TF 764137 Norfolk, due to the Georgian structure A dazzling church from the C19 Church open Saturdays, Easter to and Italianate style interior. Services spire to the Norman foundations the end of September. are held nearly every week, for with vividly coloured picture panels, A simple parish church set adjacent to details please contact incumbent or monuments and high quality carved Narford Hall and its lake. churchwarden. woodwork. Carved angels in the C15 narvalleygroup.org.uk northruncton.churchnorfolk.com wooden roof. A consistory court in GRADE GRADE LOCAL north-west corner from 1671. I P I P stnicholaskingslynn.org.uk GRADE NORTH WOOTTON, I P All Saints Manor Road, PE30 3QA GRID REF: TF 640243 Open dawn to dusk. Although a church has stood on this site for 800 years, the present church was built in 1850 and is an excellent example of Gothic Revivalism. churchinthewoottons.net

GRADE LOCAL II P 9 OLD HUNSTANTON, St Mary RUNCTON HOLME, St James SNETTISHAM, St Mary Church Road, PE36 6JS Church Lane, PE33 0AP Old Church Road, PE31 7NA GRID REF: TF 689419 GRID REF: TF 6172 0946 GRID REF: TF 690342 Open dawn to dusk. Keyholder information displayed. Open dawn to dusk as the church is The building is virtually as built in Norman, with a pretty churchyard and now open all year round. the C14 by Sir Hamon le Strange, a very interesting pulpit with what Pevsner called St Mary’s church “the although beneftting from a major looks like dolphins around the top. most exciting C14 Decorated church restoration in 1853. Much of interest achurchnearyou.com/ in Norfolk.” St Mary’s church with its including an early Norman font, an church/13994/ 175 foot tall tower & spire, sits on

early stone piscina and a carved stone GRADE high ground above the village, and * cofn dating back to the C11/12. The II P was often a landmark for mariners lower panels of the chancel screen are navigating The Wash. Someone

WEST NORFOLK & THE FENS THE & NORFOLK WEST original C16 paintings representing the SANDRINGHAM, called it “God’s rocket to heaven”. The eleven faithful apostles with St Paul. St Mary Magdalene original steeple was erected by John hunstantonstmary.churchnorfolk. Sandringham Estate, PE35 6EH of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the son com GRID REF: TF 691285 of Edward III. GRADE LOCAL Open daily during March to October snettishamchurch.org.uk I P GRADE from 11am - 4.30pm (4pm in LOCAL October). Sundays 1pm - 4.30pm I P PENTNEY, (3.30pm in October). St Mary Magdalene During the winter the church is only SOUTH ACRE, St George Narborough Road / Back Road, open for services. Please see website Finger Hill, PE32 2AD PE32 1JH for exact opening dates. GRID REF: TF 810143 GRID REF: TF 720138 sandringham.churchnorfolk.com Open dawn to dusk.

Open dawn to dusk. GRADE LOCAL A gem of a church, containing Sir * A late Saxon, early Norman church. The II P Edward Barkham’s Tomb, Lord Mayor surviving arcading on the north and of London (1621-1622). A brass nearly south nave walls indicate the eastern SEDGEFORD, St Mary full size of Sir John Harsyke, and his extent of the original Norman church Church Lane, PE36 5NA wife Katherine - 1384, Norman font, which would have ended in an apse. GRID REF: TF 707364 with part of canopied font cover. Stone Excellent consecration crosses. The Open every day from 9am - 3pm efgy of a Knight Templar - C12. Pentney Saxon brooches were found October to March and 9am - 5pm narvalleygroup.org.uk in the churchyard in 1977. Details April to September. GRADE LOCAL portrayed inside the church. They are The church is one of the largest round I P now in the British Museum. tower churches in Norfolk. It is of narvalleygroup.org.uk historical and architectural signifcance SOUTH CREAKE, St Mary GRADE LOCAL and Grade I Listed. The church is over Church Lane, NR21 9LX I P 900 years old. GRID REF: TF 855362 dockingbenefce.co.uk Open dawn to dusk.

GRADE LOCAL One of the most beautiful medieval I P churches in Norfolk. Notable for its RINGSTEAD, St Andrew light and airy atmosphere, it has a High Street, PE36 5JU SHERNBORNE, fne angel roof which is said to have GRID REF: TF 705406 St Peter & St Paul been raised in celebration of Henry See website for key holder details. Cross Roads, Shernborne, PE31 6RY V’s victory at Agincourt in 1415. C13 ringstead.churchnorfolk.com GRID REF TF 713324 chancel, C14 and C15 glass. Seven sacrament font (defaced), wineglass GRADE LOCAL Open everyday dawn to dusk. * II P achurchnearyou.com/ pulpit and C15 rood screen. church/10315/ southcreake.org

GRADE LOCAL ROYDON, All Saints GRADE II* I P Church Lane, PE32 1AR P GRID REF: TF 699236 See website for key holder details. ggmbenefce.uk

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TITCHWELL, St Mary

SOUTH WOOTTON, STANHOE, All Saints SYDERSTONE, St Mary St Mary the Virgin Church Lane, PE31 8QL The Street, PE31 8RY Church Lane, PE30 3LL GRID REF: TF 802368 GRID REF: TF 833326 GRID REF: TF 640227 Open dawn to dusk. Open 10am to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. A beautiful church with some stunning Set in a beautiful churchyard, this is St Mary’s is a small C14 church with stained glass windows. a fne round tower church, originally some interesting features including a dockingbenefce.co.uk/all-saints- Norman. The building shows striking C12 Norman font and a bier church-stanhoe.html development in the Early English, dating back 400 years. GRADE Decorated and Perpendicular styles. churchinthewoottons.net I A lively parish church with services

GRADE LOCAL every week. * II P STOW BARDOLPH, syderstone.churchnorfolk.com GRADE Holy Trinity I SOUTHERY, St Mary Lynn Road, PE34 3HT P Churchgate Street, PE38 0ND GRID REF: TF 6283 0564 GRID REF: TL 62194 94604 Open every day dawn to dusk. TERRINGTON, St Clement Keys available locally - phone 01366 Medieval with Victorian alterations. St Clement’s Church, 377342 or 01366 377286 for access. Hare Chapel with signifcant Churchgateway, PE34 4LZ The Victorian church has a Gothic monuments including 1744 wax efgy, GRID REF: TF 5519 2043 structure, enhanced by a richly the only one outside Westminister Key available from Marshland decorated chancel. A tradition of tiles Abbey. Charles II Royal Coat of Arms News shop. provides village history and stained and many other interesting features. Known as “The Cathedral of the glass windows, old & new, illuminate achurchnearyou.com/ Marshland” it was established in the the church. church/13995/ C14 and has a magnifcent painted grimshoebenefce.com GRADE LOCAL font cover representing scenes from I GRADE LOCAL P the baptism and temptation of Christ. II P tsc-church.org.uk

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WEST ACRE, All Saints

THORNHAM, All Saints WALPOLE, St Peter WALSOKEN, All Saints Church Street, PE36 6NJ Church Road, PE14 7NS Church Road, PE13 3RA GRID REF: TF 733434 GRID REF: TF 502168 GRID REF: TF 4772 1054 Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. Open daily May to September. thornham.churchnorfolk.com Of the great Norfolk ‘wool’ churches, 10am-3pm. At other times key

GRADE LOCAL this is perhaps the fnest of them all. arrangements in porch. I P With the nave and aisles dating from Described by Pevsner as “the grandest 1360s with perpendicular chancel Norman Parish Church in Norfolk”. Has TILNEY, All Saints completed by 1423 & porches by 1450. Norman nave arcade, seven sacrament Church Road, PE34 4SJ Wonderful craftsmanship in stone and font, C15 wall painting and angel roof GRID REF: TF 56837 17973 joinery. Raised high altar to allow for and medieval carved poppyhead Open dawn to dusk. processional passage underneath (The pew ends. Beautiful, Grade I Listed ‘Marshland ‘Bolt Hole’). The church and churchyard allsaintswalsoken.co.uk Gem’ with double hammer-beam roof host a large fve day Flower Festival GRADE LOCAL with Angels and impressive Norman annually in the frst week in June. I P walpolestpeterchurch.org arcade in nave. Jacobean chancel screen & C15 choir stalls. Lovely, GRADE LOCAL peaceful atmosphere. I P achurchnearyou.com/ WATERDEN, All Saints church/14007/ NR22 6AT GRID REF: TF 884358 GRADE I Open dawn to dusk. Isolated building reached by grass track. Parts date from Norman times TITCHWELL, St Mary with evidence of alterations over Church Lane, PE31 8BA centuries. Victorian box pews. No GRID REF: TF 762438 power supply. Open dawn to dusk. southcreake.org titchwell.churchnorfolk.com GRADE * GRADE II P I P

12 WEST ACRE, All Saints WEST LYNN, St Peter WIGGENHALL, WEST NORFOLK & THE FENS Church Green, PE32 1TS St Peter’s Road, PE34 3JD St Mary Magdalene GRID REF: TF 780152 GRID REF: TF 6120 1973 Church Road, PE34 3DG Open dawn to dusk. Open Sundays when there are GRID REF: TF 59864 11374 Much altered in 1638 by Sir Edward services, other times a key is Open dawn to dusk. Barkham, contains a number of available. The church has a weeping chancel wall memorials to Hamond and A delightful, if simple, church, on a site also rare collection of medieval stained Birkbeck families. Interesting clock on which worship has been ofered glass. There are four paintings from face on the tower, and stained since the C13; one that proves that the original Rood Screen. The pews glass in the Chancel windows. big is not always best! We do have a are C14 with poppy head ends, there narvalleygroup.org.uk wonderful octagonal Sacrament Font. are also some Victorian box pews. The

GRADE LOCAL achurchnearyou.com/ pulpit is carved tracery work from the I P church/14027/ Victorian period. The C13 tower houses

GRADE LOCAL six bells which give a ‘fne peal’ and are * WEST BILNEY, St Cecilia II P popular with visiting ringers. There is a Lynn Road (A47) PE32 1XQ wheelchair for use in the church which GRID REF: TF 716641 WEST NEWTON, is stored behind the church door Open daily in the summer and by St Peter & St Paul next to the ramps. The toilet is now arrangement with keyholder at B1439, PE31 6AU completed. We also have a George III other times. GRID REF: TF 696275 coat of arms and an altar slab. Predominantly C14. Early English Open dawn to dusk. eastmarshland.org.uk entrance doors and arched recesses westnewton.churchnorfolk.com GRADE I P in the nave walls from earlier church. GRADE II* P Extensive C19th restorations. The diary of Elizabeth Freke who lived in West Bilney from 1676 to 1714 provides a WEST RUDHAM, St Peter WIMBOTSHAM, St Mary glimpse of the parish life at this time. School Road, PE31 8TE She is buried in Westminster Abbey. Church Road, PE34 3QG GRID REF: TF 819532 GRID REF: TF 6223 0489 Redundant church cared for by the Open daily in the summer and by Norfolk Churches Trust. Parking of Open dawn to dusk. arrangement with the keyholder at A ‘three chamber’ building with Paws Lane, behind the church. other times. norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk signifcant Norman construction work Set well of the road in spacious including a corbel table to the chancel GRADE * churchyard, St Peter’s is a large parish II P roof, north and south doors and church dating from the C13 but with chancel arch. Perpendicular additions extensive alterations during successive from C14 including north porch, barrell WEST DEREHAM, centuries. The Decorated west tower arch nave roof with painted bosses, St Andrew and piscina; C15 Perpendicular Rood stairs and angel piscina. Mid Saint Andrews Walk, PE33 9RT clerestory, nave roof and stained glass Victorian reinstallation of medieval Open most days. in the nave; C17 benches; C18 Gothick apse by Rattee and Kett and nave pew Recognised as one of the most screen and C19 east window and carvings by James Rattee. important medieval churches in the Commandment Boards. Redundant; achurchnearyou.com/ UK. The church stands on slightly cared for by Norfolk Churches Trust church/7419/ raised ground overlooking the village. norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk GRADE LOCAL * The massive round tower is believed GRADE II P to be the second largest of its type in I P Norfolk. The present church was frst WOLFERTON, St Peter recorded in 1246 and was united in WIGGENHALL, St Germans 1401 with the Saxon church of St Peter, PE31 6HA Lynn Road, PE34 GRID REF: TF 657281 the site of which was to the west of GRID REF: TF 59693 14015 the present courtyard. Open dawn to dusk. Open every day 10am to dusk. wolferton.churchnorfolk.com achurchnearyou.com/ Church was built between C13 and GRADE church/14001/ * mid C16. The pew end carvings are a II GRADE special feature depicting the Deadly I P Sins and scenes from the Life of St Germanus. eastmarshland.org.uk

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14 ALBY, St Ethelbert and the remains of a rood screen. A BARNEY, St Mary NORTH NORFOLK Church Road, NR11 7HF number of ancient bench ends have The Street, NR21 0AD GRID REF: TG 202336 poppy heads, but of more interest are GRID REF: TF 994327 Open dawn to dusk. the carvings on wooden shields on Open dawn to dusk. scarrowbeckbenefce.org.uk/ the back pew dating from 1531. On a Medieval church with Victorian st-ethelberts-alby poignant note in the southeast corner additions. Medieval carved angel roof.

GRADE of the sanctuary lies the tomb of The church and churchyard are in * II P Honor Bacon who in 1591 died on the regular use, well kept, well loved and eve of her wedding day. Do come and always open. ALDBOROUGH, St Mary visit, it’s a lovely little church. barney.churchnorfolk.com ashmanhaugh.churchnorfolk.com NR11 7NT GRADE GRADE I P GRID REF: TG 179338 II* P Open dawn to dusk. The church stands 1/2 mile from the BARNINGHAM WINTER, village of Aldborough. Used for regular ATTLEBRIDGE, St Andrew St Mary the Virgin weekly worship. Fine stained glass Station Road, NR9 5AA Barningham Park, Nr Barningham windows, medieval fgure brasses and GRID REF: TG 129168 Hall, NR11 7HY font. Churchyard displays variety of Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TG 146356 dafodils, narcissi and dog-tooth violets The church now hosts a Post Ofce Open dawn to dusk. in the spring. from 10.45am - 12.45pm on Monday The church stands as an important scarrowbeckbenefce.org.uk/ mornings. landmark in the park of Barningham st-marys-aldborough reephambenefce.org.uk Hall which was remodelled by

GRADE GRADE LOCAL LOCAL Humphrey Repton in 1815. It is a * * II P II P picturesque ruin with the chancel and later fore-building (added in 1830) ALDERFORD, AYLMERTON, remaining roofed and in use for parish St John the Baptist St John the Baptist worship. In 1602 it is described as Hall Road, NR9 5NF Church Road, NR11 8PZ "long since utterly decayed". The bell Key available on request. GRID REF: TG 181400 tower is C14 and houses an unusual reephambenefce.org.uk During all daylight hours. steel bell, one of only three in Norfolk.

GRADE Small medieval round tower church, in Inside the church there is a piscina * II P a lovely rural setting. and triple sedilia which have survived quintetbenefce.com from the Middle Ages. It is loved by

GRADE LOCAL all who visit and makes an excellent ANTINGHAM, St Mary with II* P St Margaret (Ruin) destination for a bicycle ride or walk. barninghamwinter.churchnorfolk. Church Lane, NR28 0NL com GRID REF: TG 252328 BACONSTHORPE, St Mary GRADE Open dawn to dusk. Church Lane, NR25 6LT * II P Medieval church with some fne GRID REF: TG 127368 pre-Raphaelite stained glass. It shares Open dawn to dusk. its churchyard with the ruin of St baconsthorpe.churchnorfolk.com BAWDESWELL, All Saints GRADE The Street, NR20 4UX Margaret’s which has pre-Norman * origins. II P GRID REF: TG 046209 poppylandchurches.org.uk Open dawn to dusk. Built in 1953 in neo-Georgian style to GRADE BALE, All Saints I P Field Dalling Road, NR21 0QZ replace the Victorian church destroyed GRID REF: TG 010367 in WWII. ASHMANHAUGH, St Swithin Open dawn to dusk. heartofnorfolkchurches.org.uk Church Road, NR12 8YL The church dates from C13 with GRADE LOCAL II P GRID REF: TG 314211 faded St Christopher wall painting, Open dawn to dusk. consecration crosses, Royal Arms of In a peaceful setting St Swithins boasts Stuart origin, C15 font, blanket charity the smallest and shortest of all the board, piscina, and a reconstructed Norfolk round towers. Although part of window of medieval glass. the Saxon tower remains, the church achurchnearyou.com/ has undergone many alterations over church/10320 the years. To note is the William Morris GRADE LOCAL stained glass window in the chancel I P 15 16 NORTH NORFOLK quintetbenefce.com Coat ofArms. with Royal andDuchy ofLancaster DiamondJubilee screen,and anew screen afne12ApostleRood Inside coast. Norfolk A gemontheNorth Saturday andSunday only. end ofOctober, Winter months on dawnOpen toEaster dusk: to the GRID REF: TG 174430 Church Close, NR279QZ BEESTON REGIS,All Saints grounds ofthehall. followed by apicnicinthedelightful fce holdanopenairservice Bene Once ayear inthesummer, the whenparkisopen. Open GRID REF: TG 049404 Bayfeld Hall, NR257JN (Ruin) BAYFIELD, St Margaret ATTLEBRIDGE, St Andrew GRADE GRADE II I

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BLAKENEY, St Nicholas, BRININGHAM, St Maurice BRISTON, All Saints NORTH NORFOLK St Mary & St Thomas Church Lane, NR24 2QB Hall Street, NR24 2LE Wiveton Road, NR25 7NJ GRID REF: TG 038343 GRID REF: TG 062325 GRID REF: TG 033436 Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. Open every day. Two grand niches occupy the east wall. This old church dates from before The parish church, built between the Their original statues would have been Edward I (1272-1307) and has many C13 and C15, is large for a small village destroyed in the C16, but they are now remaining interesting features. One of and dominates the surrounding area flled with modern wood carvings of St which is a metal cello made c.1700 by with its two towers. The hammer Maurice and the Virgin Mary. a local blacksmith. beam roof and wealth of stained glass brininghambenefce.org.uk briston.churchnorfolk.com enhance the majesty of the building GRADE GRADE LOCAL * and its dimensions are comparable I P II P to a major city church. The chancel east window is a gem of Early English BRINTON, St Andrew BURGH PARVA, St Mary architecture with seven stepped Stody Road, NR24 2QH Holt Road, NR25 2PU lancets. The church is featured in GRID REF: TG 038357 GRID REF: TG 043335 Simon Jenkins’ 1000 Best Churches and Open dawn to dusk. Open by arrangement (01263 in the Daily Telegraph 100 favourite A C14 church set in the centre of an 862569). churches. attractive Georgian village. The chancel burghparva.churchnorfolk.com blakeneychurch.co.uk was demolished in the middle ages, GRADE LOCAL so we are left with a cosy little church P I P which always welcomes visitors, and is an oasis of calm. Popular fortnightly BURNHAM DEEPDALE, services. St Mary brininghambenefce.org.uk BODHAM, All Saints A149, PE31 8DD GRADE GRID REF: TF 804443 Hart Lane, NR25 6PX I P GRID REF: TG 125389 Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. St Mary’s church proudly possesses a All Saints Bodham is a beautiful, BRISLEY, St Bartholomew Saxon round tower, a Norman square isolated medieval building. It is well Church Street, NR20 5AA font depicting the labours of the kept and is ideal for quiet prayer and GRID REF: TF 950214 months and a collection of medieval meditation. Well worth a visit. Open dawn to dusk. glass. During the week, the church is weybournegroup.co.uk This lovely and interesting accessible to wheelchair users by prior perpendicular church has many arrangement via the link below. GRADE * II P surviving original features. These burnhamdeepdale.co.uk/stmarys include signifcant medieval wall GRADE LOCAL * paintings, old benches with traceried II P BRADFIELD, St Giles backs, carved bench ends, a three Church Road, NR28 0NX decker pulpit and an interesting BURNHAM MARKET, GRID REF: TG 267333 crypt which was once used to All Saints (Ulph) Open dawn to dusk. accommodate prisoners overnight St Giles is a small, very quiet, beautiful Ulph Place, PE31 8HQ on the long journey from King’s Lynn GRID REF: TF 835422 rural church. Ideal for a short DIY assizes to the gallows in Norwich. The retreat. No electricity, no water, so Open dawn to dusk every day of crypt has been recently repaired and the year. bring your sandwiches, cofee fask is open to visitors to explore. Richard and think undisturbed thoughts. Some This is a small, simple church with early Taverner who translated the Bible into origins, although it was restrored in fascinating wall paintings too. English was born in Brisley. bradfeld.churchnorfolk.com Victorian times. It has no tower, but a brisley.churchnorfolk.com bell cote on the west end of the nave. GRADE * GRADE LOCAL II P There is Saxon evidence in a blocked I P north nave window outside, and a transitional Norman/Early English chancel arch c1190 inside. The pulpit is Georgian. burnhamsbenefce.org.uk

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Best Churches, dates from the early Jenkins’ Simon in 1000 and Pevsner in featured church, present The wheelchair access. Please ring 01263 740806 for c.Open 10amto dusk. GRID REF: TG 048431 Cley Green ,NR257TT St Margaret ofAntioch CLEY-NEXT-THE-SEA, interesting features, interior include font,period, ithas aNorman andother restored inthe andextended Victorian Built offintandfreestone, was dawnOpen to dusk. GRID REF: TF 917265 Church Road, NR217NP COLKIRK, the St Mary Virgin norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk Churches Norfolk Trust churchRedundant cared for by the baptised inthechurch. Guidebook. Narborough wereand SirJohn The admirals, SirCloudeselyShovell west tower window. Fine memorials. feathered angelplaying arebeck in Post reformation walltexts. Lovely Fine wallpainting. StChristopher necessitated raisingthenave roof. which with aC15southclerestory C13 west tower and southaisle Evidence ofC11origins innave. dawnOpen to dusk. GRID REF: TF 981422 NR23 1QS glavenvalleychurches.org.uk light. with interior the ooding f clerestory the of windows cinquefoil the and window west vast the and nave high the of proportions cathedral-like almost the of aware is one inside Once entrance. beautiful a provides heraldry, stone carved its with church the of porch south area. the The to wealth considerable coastal andforeign andbringing craft by water, used navigable was two the between valley the Ages Middle fromvalley Wiveton the Church. In building,site ofanearlier across the ofthe C14andstandsonthe part COCKTHORPE, ALL SAINTS ALL COCKTHORPE, GRADE GRADE I I

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Burnham Deepdale, St Mary early carved corbels re-used in the CROMER, DUNTON, St Peter north aisle. An interesting memorial St Peter & St Paul The Street, NR21 7PG window with one panel dedicated Church Street, NR27 9AE GRID REF: TF 879303 to the memory of Henry Hoare of GRID REF: TG 219422 Open dawn to dusk. Staplehurst, Kent, a leading C19 church Open dawn to dusk. Predominantly Perpendicular in layman, a partner in the C.Hoare & Co. Impressive medieval building in the character, but retaining many C14 Bank. The other panel is dedicated centre of Cromer, heavily restored Decorated features. A mid C19 to the Revd William Chapman, who, in the C19 after falling into disrepair. restoration included a new roof and despite being stone deaf, ministered at Restoration included an impressive east window. The rood screen dates Colkirk for many years. hammerbeam roof with carved angels. from c. 1900. Interesting memorials. colkirk.churchnorfolk.com A memorial in the lounge area under Spring fowers in churchyard.

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prayer; its east window is by Sir Edward GRADE CORPUSTY, St Peter * Norwich Road, NR11 6QE (closest Burne-Jones. The church boasts the II P postcode) tallest church tower in Norfolk, which GRID REF: TG 114294 can be climbed when the church is EAST BARSHAM, All Saints Open Fridays and Saturdays manned in the summer (see website). Fakenham Road, NR21 0AR 10am – 3pm Additional days cromer-church.org.uk GRID REF: TF 916337 during summer months and by GRADE LOCAL Open dawn to dusk. arrangement with local keyholder. I P walsinghamparishes.org.uk

Redundant church cared for by the GRADE LOCAL * Norfolk Churches Trust. The church has II P been a victim of vandalism for many CROSTWIGHT, All Saints years but now being restored by Trust. EAST RAYNHAM, St Mary C13 origins. Extensive C15 alterations: Hall Road, NR28 9NP GRID REF: TG 334299 NR21 7ER large perpendicular windows, tower GRID REF: TF 879255 arch, roof and font. Access via grassy Key available at the Rectory at the end of the lane where you park. Open dawn to dusk. path through graveyard. Uneven foors. eastraynham.churchnorfolk.com norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk crostwight.churchnorfolk.com GRADE GRADE GRADE * * II P II P I P 19 20 NORTH NORFOLK edgefeld.churchnorfolk.com distanceaway.short now church abandonedmedieval a from andfurnishings materials the location in1884,usingmany ofthe The church wasrebuilt initspresent dawnOpen to dusk. GRID REF: TG 093341 Sweetbriar Lane, NR242AF St Peter &St Paul EDGEFIELD, quintetbenefce.com andprayer.of airiness fromconverted aschool, withasense delightfulsmallchurch, A surprisingly daily10am-4pm. Open GRID REF: TG 197423 Lower Common, NR27 EAST RUNTON, St Andrew ERPINGHAM, St Mary the ERPINGHAM, St Mary Virgin GRADE P II *

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FOULSHAM, Holy Innocents GLANDFORD, St Martin GREAT WALSINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK High Street, NR20 5RX Hurdle Lane, NR25 7JP St Peter GRID REF: TG 032250 GRID REF: TG 043414 Church Road / Mill Lane, NR22 6DZ Open 8am to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TF 938375 heartofnorfolkchurches.org.uk The church, which sits on a bluf Open dawn to dusk.

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I P the year 1730. There was some limited GRADE LOCAL restoration work in 1875, but it was not I P FOXLEY, St Thomas until the end of the C19 that Sir Alfred The Street, NR20 4QP Jodrell, who had inherited Bayfeld Hall, GREAT WITCHINGHAM, GRID REF: TG 039217 decided to rebuild the church in its St Mary Key available next door. entirety as a memorial to his mother. Heath Lane, NR9 5PA A fascinating church which spans the Very elaborate carved woodwork and GRID REF: TG 103200 centuries from Saxon times; including richly furnished interior, including Open dawn to dusk. famous C15 painted screen, early stained glass windows from the Beautiful C13 church in peaceful benches with poppyheads, C16 box workshop of Kempe and Bryans. The surroundings approx. 1½ miles from pews and pulpit. Regency gallery and clock tower has a carillon of twelve the main village. There is a splendid Edwardian vestry screen. bells. C15 seven sacrament font with some heartofnorfolkchurches.org.uk glavenvalleychurches.org.uk of the original colour still visible.

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FULMODESTON, Christ Church GREAT RYBURGH, GRESHAM, All Saints Barney Road, NR21 0LZ St Andrew Church Lane, NR11 8RT GRID REF: TF 992308 Mill Road, NR21 0BE GRID REF: TG 167385 Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TF 962272 Open dawn to dusk. Built in the 1880s to replace the Open dawn to dusk. quintetbenefce.com original St Mary’s, and the Chapel of St GRADE An unusual church with its Saxon II* P John, Croxton (both now ruined). It is round tower and distinctive cruciform an unmodifed example of a Tractarian shape. The chancel was reordered in Church of the Arts and Crafts period. 1912 by Sir Ninian Comper to give the GUESTWICK, St Peter Recently re-roofed, Christ Church has building a wonderful feeling of space Church Road, NR20 5QJ disabled access, by arrangement. and light. Decorated WW1 memorial GRID REF: TG 061270 fulmodeston.churchnorfolk.com screen and accompanying exhibition. Open dawn to dusk. GRADE standrewsgreatryburgh.org.uk With Saxon origins visible in the base of II P GRADE LOCAL the tower (uniquely sited in the centre * II P of the North side), St Peter’s is amongst GATELEY, St Helen the oldest continuously occupied Church Road, NR20 5EH GREAT SNORING, St Mary church sites in Norfolk. View our GRID REF: TF 960245 The Street, NR21 0HS Millennium window in the NW corner. Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TF 946345 Visit en route to Reepham or Foulsham. An unpretentious mainly C15 church Open dawn to dusk. heartofnorfolkchurches.org.uk with one of the best examples of a GRADE This large, bright church dates from I P rood screen in the county displaying the C13 with C14 and C15 additions. eight paintings. Of particular note are the Stuart Royal gateley.churchnorfolk.com Arms, the Commandment Boards and GUIST, St Andrew GRADE LOCAL I P the C15 rood screen. Norwich Road, NR20 5NS greatsnoring.org.uk GRID REF TG 000256

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GRADE I P 21 22 NORTH NORFOLK HELHOUGHTON, All Saints hanworth.churchnorfolk.com panelsinside.interpretative history Familythe Doughty monuments; Tudor iron chest; boundparish Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TG 203349 Street,High NR117HJ St Bartholomew HANWORTH, gunthorpe.churchnorfolk.com Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TG 012352 f HallLane,O NR242NX GUNTHORPE, St Mary hempton.churchnorfolk.com Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TF 913291 The Green, NR217LQ HEMPTON, Holy Trinity hempstead.churchnorfolk.com 1928. Part of ‘Churches Trail’. when thethatched apsewasaddedin many from periods Saxon to theC20 development, retaining features of both interesting andunusualinits A delightfullittlechurch whichis Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TG 104370 The Street /Chapel Lane, NR256AH (Near Holt) HEMPSTEAD, All Saints helhoughton.churchnorfolk.com I. time ofJames board inthechanceldates from the dates from late C12,andthefneArms and Georgian styles. The church font abuildingofmixed has left medieval The in1790,which church wasre-built weekends,Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TF 869265 Fakenham Road, NR217BP GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE II II II II II * * * *

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GRADE weybournegroup.co.uk knaptonsangels.co.uk * GRADE II P GRADE * II P I P ITTERINGHAM, St Mary Church Road, NR11 7AY KETTLESTONE, All Saints LANGHAM, GRID REF: TG 144309 The Street, NR21 0AU St Andrew & St Mary Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TF 967317 Holt Road / Field Dalling Road, The church has four beautiful stained Open dawn to dusk. NR25 7BX glass windows, one in memory of C13 octagonal tower. Early English GRID REF: TG 007413 Robert Walpole, Rector here for 47 arcade with C14 and C15 nave and Open dawn to dusk. years. Joined to the church is a ruined chancel windows. Heavily restored The charmingly gabled and massive- C14 chapel. 1869 -71. Octagonal C15 font. towered church at Langham looks itteringham.churchnorfolk.com Fragments of Norman decorated stone towards the sea guarding its gentle hill

GRADE LOCAL work in south wall of porch. with serene finty loveliness. This old * II P kettlestone.churchnorfolk.com friend from the 1300s remains much GRADE LOCAL loved. A place for quiet prayer and II* P KELLING, St Mary the Virgin refection. The Street, NR25 7EW langham.churchnorfolk.com GRID REF: TG 08877 41729 GRADE Open dawn to dusk. I P Ancient C13 church with extensive and beautiful churchyard. The chancel contains a rare Easter Sepulchre and a 23 24 NORTH NORFOLK com littlebarningham.churchnorfolk. Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TG 141333 The Street, NR117AG St Andrew BARNINGHAM, LITTLE glavenvalleychurches.org.uk screen orrood to separate theparts. the nave andchancel, for there isno note isthecontinuouslineof 1234. Of was notaddedto thetower until 1086,buttherestafter ofthechurch –waserectedone inthevalley shortly round towerThe striking –theonly Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TG 060389 Church Lane, NR257YA LETHERINGSETT, St Andrew LANGHAM, St Andrew &St Mary GRADE GRADE II II * *

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GRADE walsinghamparishes.org.uk church, complete with thatched roof. * II P GRADE LOCAL Many connections with the Paston * II P papers and family. For full details see MORSTON, All Saints our website. The Street, NR25 7AA NORTH ELMHAM, St Mary pastonchurch.org.uk GRID REF: TG 008438 Holt Road , NR20 5JU GRADE LOCAL Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TF 988215 I P morston.churchnorfolk.com Open daily from 8am - 6pm. GRADE LOCAL The church of St Mary dates from the I P late C11 with a C16 clerestory town. It is adjacent to the site of the See’s frst PLUMSTEAD, St Michael & All Angels (Near Holt) MORTON-ON-THE-HILL, Anglo-Saxon Cathedral (transferred to St Margaret Thetford in 1071). Visible are thethe Church Street, NR11 7LG (Near Holt) ruins of a Norman Bishop’s Chapel, GRID REF: TG 132348 Address of Ringland Road, NR9 5JS Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TG 126181 now in the guardianship of English Heritage. Within the church are fne Mostly C15 with some C12 stonework. Open daylight hours April Some medieval stained glass. Rector to November. Otherwise by C16 bench ends, C15 screen and associated wall paintings. There is also Benjamin Suckling was a cousin of arrangement with local keyholder Nelson. Modern paintings based on on 01603 880165 if locked. a pulpit and communion table carved in the 1630s and a few windows the Ranworth screen. Standing on a bluf above Morton plumstead.churchnorfolk.com Hall, St Margaret’s is far from any include fragments of medieval glass. GRADE heartofnorfolkchurches.org.uk * public roads or settlement. The II P Saxon tower collapsed onto nave GRADE LOCAL after the Easter Service in 1959. A I P REEPHAM, period of gradual decay was halted by a sensitive restoration in the late St Mary Whitwell, 1970s when the nave and chancel St Michael & All Angels and were saved and the remains of the NORTHREPPS, St Mary Hackford All Saints (Ruin) tower stabilised. Redundant church Church Street, NR27 0LG Church Street, NR10 4JW cared for by the Norfolk Churches GRID REF: TG 244390 GRID REF: TG 101228 Trust. Reached via farm drive from Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. Ringland Road. Limited parking. poppylandchurches.org.uk Explore the unique churchyard which norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk GRADE was once home to three churches, St I P Mary, St Michael and All Saints which GRADE * II P was destroyed by fre in 1543. Find OULTON, the medieval altar tomb to Sir William MUNDESLEY, All Saints St Peter & St Paul de Kerdiston, in St Mary’s. St Michael’s Church Lane, NR11 6NT ofers cofee every Saturday and is Cromer Road , NR11 8JG used for Messy Church and Mothers’ GRID REF: TG 310369 GRID REF: TG 136284 Open dawn to dusk. Union once a month. Open dawn to dusk. reephambenefce.org.uk One of the very few churches without oultonstpeterandstpaul. GRADE a tower or a steeple, but we do have churchnorfolk.com I P GRADE one of the best (sea) views in Norfolk. II* P mundesley.churchnorfolk.com

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GRADE LOCAL * II P 25 26 NORTH NORFOLK angels onnave roof, C15wineglass projecting from ringing gallery, carved wooden cover hoisted by crane include aseven sacramentfont with is visiblefor milesaround. Features village. The 111 foot (34metres) tower C15 andliesinthecentre ofthesmall large church whichisentirelyA very dawnOpen to dusk. GRID REF: TG 110248 The Street, NR104SE SALLE, St Peter &St Paul roughton.churchnorfolk.com round towerMedieval church. dawnOpen to dusk. GRID REF: TG 220365 Church Loke, NR118SZ ROUGHTON, St Mary ridlington.churchnorfolk.com - allwelcome. the frstSunday ofeachmonthat3pm are heldon Services Cycle Network. for thoseonRoute 30oftheNational place for rest andreEspecially fection. day andisagreatchurch isopenevery inthechancel. pieces survived The attack during ofwhichthree WW1, irreparable damagedueto aZeppelin stained glasswindows sufered dates from theC13. The chancel’s a circular andpossibly column,isearly font,The octagonal whichstandson thatched reed. roofng usingNorfolk examplesof one ofthefew surviving thatched bracesandis onmedieval dates from 1760. The chancel’s roof is little later. The eastwallisred and brick nave C14andthechancelisa isearly formoney thetower andbells. The of 1421by Thomas Stacy, whichleft is theresult C15legacy ofanearly Walsham Road. This church medieval coast andtheHappisburgh to North situated about1mileinlandfrom the churchThis quietandsmallparish is dawnOpen to dusk. GRID REF: TG 345310 Happisburgh Road, NR289GA RIDLINGTON, St Peter Doctors painted ondoors,Doctors misericords pulpit, cutdown screen withfour Latin GRADE GRADE II I *

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SOUTHREPPS, St James STIBBARD, All Saints STIFFKEY, St John the Clipped Hedge Lane, NR11 8NX Fulmodeston Road, NR21 0LT Baptist and St Mary GRID REF: TG 256367 GRID REF: TF 983284 Church Street, NR23 1QJ Open daylight hours every day. Open daily from 10am - 4pm. GRID REF: TF 974429 An elegant and airy church with A typical Norfolk church set in a quiet Open dawn to dusk. a great tower visible for miles. The hamlet. The church was built around The church is an ancient medieval building dates from the C14 and C15 1300 with a major restoration in 1862. foundation. Originally there used although there are signs of an earlier The list of Rectors starts at 1325. to be two churches in the same church on the site. Interesting carvings on pew ends, churchyard, one dedicated to St Mary poppylandchurches.org.uk some animal carvings, a tiny area which was abandoned in the C16

GRADE LOCAL of wall paintings and a colourfully and deconsecrated by the Bishop of I P decorated rood beam. Restoration to Norwich in 1563. The Bacon family, chancel and rood screen by William (and more recently the Townsends of Butterfeld in 1862. Recently restored Raynham), were infuential landowners tower and east window from an HLF in the parish. Sir Nicholas Bacon SPARHAM, grant. A permanent exhibition of (Keeper of the Great Seal to Elizabeth I) St Mary the Virgin Stibbard wartime and local history, and his son Sir Nathaniel, whose tomb Well Lane, NR9 5AQ church records and old photographs is in the church, built the adjacent GRID REF: TG 071196 is on display. Electronic copies of Old Hall. An excellent guide book Open dawn to dusk. detailed family histories are available includes a sensitive account of the sad C15 church with nave, chancel, north for purchase in aid of church funds. tenure of the Revd Harold Davidson, and south aisles and tower. Unusual Please email churchwardens for more famously “unfocked” for supposed panels from rood screen. Brass to details or visit. indiscretions in London. His grave is in William Mostarda priest of 1490. facebook.com/stibbardchurch the churchyard, which also contains

Stained glass windows of 1946 and GRADE a conservation area. The position of * 2007. Toilets available for services and II P the church in the Stifkey river valley village events at the Old School Room. is peaceful and attractive. The church reephambenefce.org.uk contains a remarkable engraved wall GRADE memorial to the dead of WWI. I P stifkey.churchnorfolk.com

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GRADE Open weekends between 9 - 5pm. * GRID REF TG 279387 A Victorian church built on Saxon II P Open dawn to dusk. ruins in the centre of a small hamlet. norfolkchurches.co.uk/ It has recently been re-roofed and THURNING, St Andrew trimingham/trimingham.htm refurbished with the help of an HLF/ Reepham Road, NR20 5QX GRADE * EH grant. GRID REF: TG 080294 II P tatterford.churchnorfolk.com Open dawn to dusk. GRADE The Church has changed little in the TRUNCH, St Botolph II P 700 years since it was built. A small Back Street, NR28 0PZ church, now boasting a three-decker GRID REF: TG 287348 TATTERSETT, pulpit and dark oak fttings, including 8.30am - 5pm daily. All Saints & St Andrew box pews which were allocated to, trunch.churchnorfolk.com

Elm Lane, PE31 6TE and used by, families of local houses GRADE LOCAL GRID REF: TF 851291 and farms - the result of a donation I P Open dawn to dusk. by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge tattersett.churchnorfolk.com in the C19.

GRADE reephambenefce.org.uk I P GRADE * TWYFORD, St Nicholas II P A1067, NR20 5LY THEMELTHORPE, St Andrew GRID REF: TG 016246 The Street, NR20 5PT THURSFORD, St Andrew Keyholder details displayed in GRID REF: TG 057240 Of Heath Lane which is just by the porch. The church is fully open Open 9am - 5pm (BST) and Crawfsh PH, NR21 0BW during Open Churches Week. 8am - 4pm (GMT). GRID REF TF 983337 heartofnorfolkchurches.org.uk GRADE heartofnorfolkchurches.org.uk Open dawn to dusk. * II P GRADE Restored and extended in the late * II P 19th century giving a unique balance of medieval and Gothic styles, UPPER SHERINGHAM, THORNAGE, All Saints complimented by stunning Victorian All Saints The Street B1110, NR25 7QH stained glass. The only surviving Lime Kiln Lane, NR26 8AE GRID REF: TG 049362 window designed by Albert Moore. All GRID REF: TG 144418 Open daily from 9am - 5pm. visitors are very welcome. Open dawn to dusk. The church dates back to Norman thursford.churchnorfolk.com The church is C14/C15. Medieval pew GRADE end carvings, rood screen and loft times and was refurbished in the C19. II* P The grand little pipe organ is an early with two green men. We also have the one, made originally for a large house legend of the mermaid. and subsequently given to the church. THWAITE, All Saints weybournegroup.co.uk Church Road , NR11 7PP GRADE LOCAL A minstrel’s galley at the west end of I P the church was removed in 1898. GRID REF: TG 192333 brininghambenefce.org.uk Open dawn to dusk.

GRADE A medieval round-tower church set WALCOTT, All Saints * II P alone in the felds just of the Norwich- Coast Road, NR12 0PD Cromer highway in North Norfolk. The GRID REF: TG 360317 THORPE MARKET, long-distance walking path known as Open dawn to dusk. St Margaret of Antioch the Weavers Way passes beside the An elegant C15 church on the north Church Road A149, NR11 8TW churchyard. east coast with plain windows making GRID REF: TG 240358 scarrowbeckbenefce.org.uk/all- the interior very light and spacious. Open dawn to dusk. saints-thwaite walcott.churchnorfolk.com GRADE LOCAL GRADE LOCAL Built new in 1796 by Lord Sufeld, a II* P I P charming Gothic chapel, set within an award winning conservation churchyard. Two rare Georgian screens,

29 WALSINGHAM, The Shrine WEST BECKHAM, WEYBOURNE, All Saints of Our Lady of Walsingham St Helen & All Saints Sherringham Road, NR25 7SX Walsingham, NR22 6BP Church Road, NR25 6NY GRID REF: TG 111430 GRID REF: TG 935 369 GRID REF: TG 143396 Open every day 10am - dusk. Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. Late Saxon tower with impressive A place of pilgrimage since 1061, Built and consecrated in 1891 and portion of a C13 Augustinian the Shrine church contains the Holy replaced the churches of St Helen, Priory. Church chancel and nave

NORTH NORFOLK NORTH House, calling to the mind place of the East Beckham and All Saints, West dated chiefy to the C13 and Annunciation of St Mary. Daily services. Beckham. The architects were C14. The porch incorporated a Visitor centre, shop and café. Habershon and Faulkner of London. Wayfarers’ Chapel above. Copy walsinghamanglican.org.uk Stones from the two former churches of Priory seal in north aisle.

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weybournegroup.co.uk GRADE LOCAL * LOCAL II WARHAM, All Saints P The Street, NR23 1NJ WHISSONSETT, St Mary GRID REF: TF 947416 WEST RUNTON, Holy Trinity Of London Street, NR20 5ST Open dawn to dusk. Cromer Road, NR27 9QT GRID REF: TF 919233 The church is much smaller than it GRID REF: TG 179428 Open dawn to dusk. was in the middle ages, having lost its Open dawn to dusk. Dating from C14 (tower) most of tower and side aisles; it was beautifully Medieval church subjected to the building was rebuilt in the C15 restored in 1890. Wheelchair access is changes during the Victorian period and is constructed mainly in the by arrangement. under the direction of Jeckyll who Perpendicular and Decorated styles. warham.churchnorfolk.com designed the beautiful altar table whissonsett.churchnorfolk.com

GRADE LOCAL in the Francis Chapel. Piscina, GRADE * * II P ancient font and memorials. II P quintetbenefce.com WARHAM, GRADE LOCAL WICKMERE, St Andrew II* St Mary Magdalene P Watery Lane, NR11 7JE Chapel Street, NR23 1NR GRID REF: TG 165337 GRID REF: TF 942416 WESTON LONGVILLE, Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. All Saints As with other parishes, both the The church is only used in July and Church Road, NR9 5JU village and the church have had a August as it has no electricity. A pretty GRID REF: TG 113158 long connection with the estate. The country church it has box pews and a Open dawn to dusk. Walpole family have worshipped and three decker pulpit. Tower with six bells, nave, chancel and cared for this church for many years. warhamstmarymagdalene. two aisles. Once in the incumbency There are fne memorials in the church. churchnorfolk.com of Parson Woodforde. Medieval wall A restoration carried out before WWII,

GRADE LOCAL paintings. Painted screen. Small but with excellent oak pews and much I P good organ. else, enables the church to continue reephambenefce.org.uk being a place where things feel right. WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA, GRADE LOCAL Newly restored medieval wall text. St Nicholas I P wickmere.churchnorfolk.com GRADE Church Street, NR23 1EQ LOCAL GRID REF: TF 918431 I P Open dawn to dusk. Rebuilt after a fre in 1879 the church WIGHTON, All Saints stands on its original footprint and Kirkgate Lane, NR23 1AL retains its unusual rood staircase. The GRID REF: TF 940399 church was re-foored in 2015. Because of on-going works, the wellsnextthesea.churchnorfolk.com church is currently closed to

GRADE LOCAL visitors. It is due to reopen for * II P Easter 2018, when it returns to be open dawn to dusk. In an elevated position, overlooking the village and the Stifkey river valley, this fne medieval church was built by the most talented stone masons 30 NORTH NORFOLK 31

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* I II GRADE GRADE C14 church stood witness to over over witness to stood C14 church and change of worship 900 years St Margaret Patron within the Parish. martyrof Antioch a virgin who lived in Antioch AD 281-305. Stained glass the sower depictswindows Margaret, and Christ calming and the lost sheep, old. 500 years over is the storm. Font services.Regular Sunday ormesbystmargaretschurch.org.uk ORMESBY, St Margaret St ORMESBY, NR29 3QD Road, Yarmouth 498145 TG GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn 1724. Fascinating history with an audio 1724. Fascinating monument to reredos, Painted trail. of what founder Paston, William Sir furnishings College, Paston is now Cornish and Gaymer of Northby Historic communion tables: Walsham. Georgian table, C16 post Reformation table and 1875 table carved Charles by Simpson when aged only 16 years. with Arms board Rare Commonwealth those of Charles II on the reverse. saint-nicholas.org.uk

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I II GRADE GRADE Large church in the centre of the in the centre church Large market Built in the C14 and town. in the churches one of the largest was the second tallest tower The UK. in Norfolk until its partial collapse in St Andrew St NR13 4TA Main Road, 365101 TG GRID REF: Open daily 8am - 4pm. one C15 with medieval screens, Two carved one C16 with painted angels, Adjacent C15 carvedsaints. angel roof. Walks. Woodland Burlinghamto northburlinghamchurch.org.uk WALSHAM, NORTH Nicholas St NR28 9BT Place, Market 283302 TG GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn NORTH BURLINGHAM, ultimately to the collapse of the tower the collapse of the tower to ultimately In 1790 the churchwardens and nave. and other local people undertook to as extend the church the chancel into see it today. we neatishead.churchnorfolk.com

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GRADE in the Domesday book, the tower the fnest medieval rood screens in * II P creating quite a landmark. England and an historic illuminated yarevalleychurches.org.uk manuscript. It has a friendly cofee

GRADE shop and great views from the tower. OXNEAD, * St Michael & All Angels II P ranworth.churchnorfolk.com GRADE LOCAL Oxnead Hall, NR10 5HP I GRID REF: TG 229240 POTTER HEIGHAM, P Open dawn to dusk. St Nicholas oxnead.churchnorfolk.com Church Lane, NR29 5LL

GRADE GRID REF: TG 419199 * II P Open dawn to dusk. REEDHAM, Has a rare and unusual octagonal brick St John the Baptist PANXWORTH, font, the only brick font in Norfolk. Church Lane, NR13 3UH All Saints (Ruin) Many other beautiful and interesting GRID REF: TG 427024 features including wall paintings of Open dawn to dusk. Panxworth Church Road, NR13 6JF Ancient and modern combine within GRID REF: TG 347135 The Seven Works of Mercy and other scenes dating from C13. High up this church. The church was founded Open dawn to dusk. before 647 on the remains of a large In 2005 the tower was struck by above the rood screen, the original Rood Beam cuts across the Chancel Roman building, but was renewed lightning and over the last few years inside following a fre in 1981. work has been undertaken to stabilise Arch, here you can see the remains of painted fgures of St. Mary and St. John abychurches.co.uk/churches/ it. The site is now occasionally used for reedham worship and churchyard is still open. on either side of the central cross, a very fne Christus fgure carved in the GRADE LOCAL norfolkchurches.co.uk/panxworth/ I P panxworth.htm Black Forest can also be seen here.

GRADE watersidegroup.org.uk * II P GRADE LOCAL I P 40 REPPS, St Peter SKEYTON, All Saints and the Arts. Visitors to St Mary’s can THE BROADS Church Road, NR29 5JS Aylsham Road, NR10 5AX see C15 poppy head pews and William GRID REF: TG 421169 GRID REF: TG 246257 Morris Stained Glass. Open dawn to dusk. Open daily dawn to dusk. southwalsham.churchnorfolk.com repps.churchnorfolk.com The church dates from C13 and GRADE LOCAL has been subject to a radical, yet I P P sympathetic, C19 restoration. Sited on

a ridge, it commands views across the RUNHAM, felds towards Norwich. skeyton.churchnorfolk.com STALHAM, St Mary St Peter & St Paul High Street, NR12 9AU Church Lane, NR29 3EL GRADE * GRID REF: TG 373251 Open dawn to dusk. II P Open dawn to dusk. St Peter and St Paul’s is a recently Built around 1400, St Mary’s has a restored early medieval church with SLOLEY, St Bartholomew wonderful C15 font and is an oasis tower. Its historic claim as a support for NR12 8HL of peace on our bustling High Street. the Herringby Leper colony is evident GRID REF: TG 298241 Cofee served each Tuesday morning. by the presence of a “Leper’s Squint”. Open dawn to dusk. stalhambenefce.org.uk There is a permanent display of the sloley.churchnorfolk.com GRADE LOCAL people of Runham who gave their lives GRADE * * II P in both World Wars. II P stbb.co

GRADE STOKESBY, St Andrew * SMALLBURGH, St Peter Runham Road, NR29 3ET II P Hall Road, NR12 9NB GRID REF: TG 435105 GRID REF: TG 333239 Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. SALHOUSE, All Saints C13 church with recently restored Bell Lane B1140, NR13 6HD A C14 church with richly decorated memorial brasses dating back to 1488. GRID REF: TG 303149 nave roof timbers. The rear pews at St Andrew’s church Open dawn to dusk. smallburgh.churchnorfolk.com have the original “poppy heads” from All Saints, Salhouse is a beautiful C15 GRADE LOCAL * the Middle Ages. church with many interesting features. II P stbb.co History leafets are available for visitors. GRADE LOCAL It is a peaceful prayer space in the * SOUTH BURLINGHAM, II P Norfolk countryside. St Edmund salhouse.churchnorfolk.com South Burlingham Road, NR13 4EU STRATTON STRAWLESS, GRADE LOCAL GRID REF: TG 372082 I P Open dawn to dusk throughout St Margaret Hainford Road, NR10 5LN July - August. Via key holder at GRID REF: TG 221207 other times. SCOTTOW, All Saints Open daily, 9am to 5pm. Scottow Hall, NR10 5DF Recent English Heritage - HLF C13 church with unusual narthex GRID REF: TG 265237 renovation project. Fine rood screen, entrance and striking Marsham family Open dawn to dusk. wall paintings and painted pulpit. memorial. Church of naturalist Robert scottow.churchnorfolk.com burlingham.churchnorfolk.com Marsham, with exhibition. Prayerful GRADE GRADE LOCAL space. Make a cup of tea or cofee. I P I P Books for sale. strattonstrawless.churchnorfolk. SEA PALLING, SOUTH WALSHAM, St Mary com St Margaret of Antioch with St Lawrence GRADE LOCAL Church Road, NR12 0UB The Street, NR13 6DQ I P GRID REF: TG 429268 GRID REF: TG 365132 Open daily 10am to 4pm. Open 9.00am - 5.00pm April to Lifeboat boards to RNLI and PVRS. October. Open 9.00am - dusk Commemoration plaque to those November to March. lost in the 1953 foods. Book of One of two medieval churches which Remembrance to those lost in the two share the same churchyard. St Mary’s World Wars. is the parish church with St Lawrence seapalling.churchnorfolk.com now reborn as a centre for Training

GRADE LOCAL * II P 41 SUFFIELD, St Margaret There is a wonderful view of St Benet’s UPTON, St Margaret of Antioch Abbey. The church has lovely stained Church Road, NR13 6AR Sufeld Common, NR11 7EL glass windows. GRID REF: TG 393121 GRID REF: TG 233312 thurne.churchnorfolk.com Open dawn to dusk.

GRADE LOCAL Open dawn to dusk. * A majestic church built between II P THE BROADS THE The church dates from C13. The 1380 and 1450 in the Perpendicular great treasure is the C16 rood screen style. St Margaret’s boasts an ancient depicting carved animals and Christian TUNSTEAD, St Mary carved font, one of the most beautiful symbols and painted panels depicting Culley’s Pit Road, NR12 8HT in Norfolk, depicting the baptism and amongst others, the Latin doctors of GRID REF: TG 308227 holy communion scenes. A Holdich the church and the Evangelists. Open dawn to dusk. organ, dating from 1865, also graces sufeld.churchnorfolk.com Pre-Conquest Church - in Saxon times the church. The organ has recently GRADE Tunstead was a walled town. The been restored with the help of a grant I P current church was built in 1327. Door from the HLF. handle ironwork c.1370. Rood Screen upton.churchnorfolk.com SUTTON, 1470 showing twelve apostles (St. Paul GRADE LOCAL St Michael & All Angels instead of Judas) and the four doctors. I P tunstead.churchnorfolk.com Church Road, NR12 9SA GRID REF: TG 388239 GRADE Open daily 10am - 3.30am in winter I P and 5pm in summer. WAXHAM, St John The older parts of the fint and stone TUNSTALL, Church Road, NR12 0DZ building date from the late C12 and St Peter & St Paul GRID REF: TG 440262 C13. The nave features a Jacobean Low Farm Road, NR13 3PS Open 10am - 4pm during summer pulpit, and intricate Perpendicular GRID REF TG 417080 and weekends only during winter. poppy heads. Open dawn to dusk. waxham.churchnorfolk.com GRADE LOCAL stalhambenefce.org.uk Overlooking Halvergate the church * II GRADE LOCAL is now partly ruined following the * II P collapse of the nave roof in 1704. The church was declared redundant in WEST SOMERTON, St Mary TAVERHAM, the 1980s and is now in the care of Church Road, NR29 4DR St Edmund the Trustees of the Tunstall (Norfolk) GRID REF: TG 475195 Taverham Lane, NR8 6SY Church Preservation Trust. Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TG 160138 achurchnearyou.com/ westsomerton.churchnorfolk.com church/10026/ GRADE LOCAL Open Monday to Friday, 9am to II* P GRADE 5pm * stedmundstaverham.co.uk II

GRADE LOCAL WICKHAMPTON, St Andrew * II P TUTTINGTON, Church Road, NR13 3PB St Peter & St Paul GRID REF: TG 427054 THRIGBY, St Mary Norwich Road, NR11 6AG Open daily morning to dusk. Thrigby Road, NR29 3DS GRID REF: TG 226271 St Andrew’s is a Grade I Listed building GRID REF: TG 460123 Open dawn to dusk. dating from around 1200AD and Open Summer months only. The Round tower has its origins in the has beautiful C14 wall paintings stbb.co late C11. A particular feature is the discovered in 1840 and amongst the fnest in East Anglia: "Deeds of Mercy", GRADE LOCAL medieval carved pew ends, unusual for * II P a small village church. "3 Living and 3 Dead", "St Christopher" achurchnearyou.com/ have interesting well preserved THURNE, St Edmund tuttington-st-peter-st-paul details; and there are stone efgies GRADE from C13 of a lady and a knight - with Church Road, NR29 3BT * II P a local legend. The character of the GRID REF: TG 405156 church remains largely untouched Open dawn to dusk. since extensive work carried out in A 700 year old church with thatched Victorian times. Just beyond are roof. The church has a squint in the tower which allowed, in the Middle Ages, a view of the Host being elevated during the Mass. 42 THE BROADS

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I I GRADE GRADE REYMERSTON, St Peter St REYMERSTON, NR9 4AG Street, The 020060 TG GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn is C14, with a church St Peter’s Glass East window. Flemish beautiful, pews and 10 unique box have We of 7/8 Reymerston A group six bells. evenings Ringers practice on Friday 7.30pm. from groupof15.org.uk OXBOROUGH, OXBOROUGH, John the Evangelist St Road , PE33 9PS Oxborough TF 744014 GRID REF: to March from Open every day October dusk. to 9.30am to Nov and open only on Saturdays Feb dusk. 9.30am to from Sundays collapsed church of this large spire The in 1948, partially ruining the nave. lofty chancel is a large, remaining The Pence Peter space and contains a rare chantryThe chapel contains lectern. memorials early of to Bedingfeld including two very Hall, Oxburgh rare terracotta tombs. renaissance oxborough.churchnorfolk.com

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* I II GRADE GRADE OVINGTON, OVINGTON, John the Evangelist St IP25 6RY Road, Church TF 925025 GRID REF: 4pm. 9am to Open every day a old with is 900 years church The visit, to welcome are You Norman door. some commune with God or just for praise and Centuries of worship, peace. good. make it feel prayer ovington.churchnorfolk.com NORTHWOLD, St Andrew St NORTHWOLD, IP26 5NF High Street, 9700 TL 7558 GRID REF: hours. Open daily during daylight Built in the early Hugh of Ely C12 by with C15 perpendicular. northwoldchurch.org.uk

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* I I I II GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE THOMPSON, St Martin St THOMPSON, 1QD IP24 Lane, Church TL 929969 GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn College Thompson’s Built in 1349 with and one of untouched Largely nearby. in medieval original churches the few Norfolk by updated that has not been Victorians. the thompson.churchnorfolk.com community and welcome all visitors. community all visitors. and welcome stmaryswatton.org THREXTON, All Saints All THREXTON, IP25 6LU O Road, f Brandon TF 884001 GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn threxton.churchnorfolk.com TITTLESHALL, Virgin MarySt the PE32 2PN Road, Church TF 895211 GRID REF: 4pm daily. Open 9am to tranquil set in A medieval church of the at the edge surroundings Monuments Sir Edward to village. Coke of the Earl and descendants of Leicester. tittleshall.churchnorfolk.com Mary St WATTON, IP25 6DQ Road, Church TF 921009 GRID REF: -24 October. 24 April Open from 10.30am - 3pm Wednesdays 10am - 12pm. Thursdays St Mary’s has been re-ordered and is which is a comfortable a church now serve open to the worship, place for

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* I I II GRADE GRADE GRADE following the river valley, which is the river valley, following part forms This abundant with wildlife. linking Way, Wensum of the 12-mile Way. Marriott’s to Way Valley the Nar swantonmorleychurch.co.uk Cuthbert St THETFORD, IP24 2BL Street, Well TL 871830 GRID REF: furtherNo opening times until work. redevelopment due to notice thetford.churchnorfolk.com All Saints All 4PB NR20 Street, Town 019173 TG GRID REF: & Sundays Saturdays Open Fridays, in the 2nd half of the school Week Open Churches summer term. and NCT cycle ride. with An imposing medieval church Valley. Wensum the fne views over Itfcent tracery has magni and fascinating historical connections, in particular with Abraham Lincoln and the centenaryWith Fathers. the Pilgrim WWI, is an exhibition which there of the stories behind the names on tells the car park From our war memorial. footpath permissive a to access is there Market Place, PE37 7AB PE37 Place, Market TF 820090 GRID REF: Open - 4pm (3pm during daily 9am GMT). Built 1454. from dates building The It of Barnack Limestone. largely oak hammerbeam an roof, features in chestnut, carvedwith 192 angels of “the Pedlar of representations prominent. are fham” Swa fhamparishchurch.org swa MORLEY, SWANTON SWAFFHAM, SWAFFHAM, Paul St & Peter St

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* * I I I II II GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE SPORLE, St Mary the Virgin Mary St SPORLE, the stowbedon.churchnorfolk.com STOW BEDON, St Botolph BEDON, St STOW NR17 1BX Hill, Pitt Gravel TL 961955 GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn stanfeld.churchnorfolk.com STANFIELD, St Margaret St STANFIELD, NR20 4AP Lane, Church TF 939207 GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn the church notice board. notice the church sporle.churchnorfolk.com The Street, PE32 2DR Street, The TF 850114 GRID REF: in exhibited holder details are Key groupof15.org GRID REF: TG 003048 TG GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn Victorian interior with medieval rood dado. screen SOUTHBURGH, St Andrew St SOUTHBURGH, IP25 7TF Lane, Church Decorated and Perpendicular features. features. Perpendicular Decorated and practice on group ringing bell The evenings. Thursday shipdham.churchnorfolk.com All Saints’ church with its distinctive church All Saints’ of this large point cupola is the focal Breckland It village. of has 800 years Norman, with Earlyhistory, English SHIPDHAM, All Saints All SHIPDHAM, 7LX IP25 Close, Church TF 958073 GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn WEASENHAM, All Saints WENDLING, WHINBURGH, Church Lane, PE32 2SS St Peter & St Paul St Mary the Virgin GRID REF: TF 850216 Of Station Road, NR19 2NE Church Road, NR19 1QS Open April to end of September, GRID REF TF 931131 GRID REF: TG 006089 dawn to dusk. Key available from a publically Open dawn to dusk. Ancient rood screen with paintings notifed address. South Tower. of saints. wendling.churchnorfolk.com groupof15.org

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GRADE * II P WEST BRADENHAM, WOODRISING, St Nicholas St Andrew NR9 4PJ WEASENHAM, St Peter Church Lane, IP25 7QT GRID REF: TG 006089 BRECKS & THETFORD FOREST THETFORD & BRECKS Fakenham Road ( A1065), PE32 2SS GRID REF: TF 917091 For key please contact incumbent GRID REF: TF 856223 Open daily 9am – 3pm or churchwarden. Open April to end of September, A medieval and later fint building woodrisingstnicholas. dawn to dusk. overlooking the village, with C14 tower churchnorfolk.com

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GRADE sedilia and ambry in the chancel; C14 I P * II P octagonal font; many windows and other memorials to the Haggard family YAXHAM, St Peter WELBORNE, All Saints of Bradenham Hall, of whom author, Sir Church Lane, NR19 1RQ Church Lane / Hill Lane, NR20 3LQ Rider Haggard, is the most famous. GRID REF: TG 007107 GRID REF: TG 067101 achurchnearyou/west-bradenham- Open dawn to dusk. The church will be open daily dawn st-andrew St Peter’s is a small but charming to dusk. GRADE medieval round tower church with 1,000 years of history, a real gem in a I P stonework from the Saxon Period (a perfect setting. Check out the choir very small amount) right on to the stall carvings, admire the Reredos and WEST LEXHAM, St Nicholas perpendicular period. a beautiful Victorian Rood Screen. PE32 2QN matvchurch.uk

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61 ALBURGH, All Saints ASLACTON, St Michael BEDINGHAM, St Andrew Church Road, IP20 0DB Church Road, NR15 2JN Crow Hill, NR35 2DD GRID REF: TM 270872 GRID REF: TM 156910 GRID REF: TM 285933 Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. earshambenefce.org.uk The church consists of a Saxon round A fne largely C13 round towered

GRADE west tower, nave, north vestry, chancel church located in a beautifully quiet I P and south aisle with porch. The tower location. Well worth a visit, especially has triangular headed belfry openings to see the medieval grafti. ALDEBY, St Mary the Virgin with medieval parapets. The south bedingham.churchnorfolk.com St Mary’s Road , NR34 0AB aisle and porch were probably added GRADE LOCAL GRID REF: TM 450933 in the C15. Roofs were restored in I P Open dawn to dusk. 1890 when the north vestry was also At the time of the Domesday Survey probably added. The church has a BERGH APTON, Aldeby had a church becoming remarkable fne set of fve bells dating St Peter & St Paul Priory Church of St Mary, one of the from the C17, one of only two in the School Road, NR15 1BX fve cells dependant on Norwich county remaining from the foundry of GRID REF: TM 310998 Cathedral Priory. It has an interesting William Brend of Norwich. Open dawn to dusk. SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY WAVENEY & NORFOLK SOUTH Norman West Doorway and in the aslacton.churchnorfolk.com On a site occupied by a church North Transept has the only chapel in GRADE LOCAL since pre-Domesday, this is a very England dedicated to St Fursey. In the I P fne example of thoughtful late south aisle it has carved faces on the Georgian/early Victorian changes to ends of the old roof timbers. The roof ATTLEBOROUGH, a medieval building whose early font in the north transept and the south Assumption of the is a particularly fne example of the aisle have recently been restored. Blessed Virgin Mary stonemason’s craft. Buried in this quiet aldeby.churchnorfolk.com Church Street, NR17 2AH country churchyard, together with his

GRADE GRID REF: TM 048953 wife Henriette, is John Thomas Pelham I P Open dawn to dusk. (1811-1894), the much-loved 64th Renowned for its amazing 52 feet rood Bishop of Norwich, for 15 years 1837 ARMINGHALL, St Mary oak screen, the only one in Norfolk to to 1852, Rector of Bergh Apton. Lots Arminghall Lane, NR14 8SF stretch across the nave and both aisles of illustrated panels at the rear of the GRID REF: TG 252043 and wall paintings dated C15. church of the village and its people. Open every day 9am - 5pm. attleboroughchurch.org.uk berghapton.churchnorfolk.com venta-group.org GRADE LOCAL GRADE I P II* P GRADE II P BILLINGFORD, St Leonard Norgate Lane, IP21 4HL ASHBY ST MARY, St Mary BANHAM, Church Road, NR14 7BJ GRID REF: TM 168790 St Mary the Virgin Whilst not open regularly, GRID REF: TG 329022 Church Lane, NR16 2HN Open dawn to dusk. the key is available by phoning GRID REF: TM 063882 01379 740730. A medieval building with Norman Open dawn to dusk. doorway and three bell tower. Inside Peaceful and tranquil setting with C13, vast, 128 foot spire, one of only seat to enjoy the fne view over the is a C19 organ and copy of ‘Light of the eight wooden medieval knight efgies world’ window by Holman Hunt. Waveney Valley. Close to Angles Way. in the country, beautiful Victorian 7churches.org.uk/billingford ashbystmary.churchnorfolk.com furnishings and reserved sacrament. GRADE GRADE LOCAL * quidenhamgroup.co.uk II P I P GRADE LOCAL I P ASHWELLTHORPE, BLUNDESTON, All Saints Ashwellthorpe St Mary the Virgin The Street, NR16 1EZ Church Road, NR32 5AJ GRID REF: TM 146976 GRID REF: TM 513972 Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. ashwellthorpe.churchnorfolk.com blundeston.churchnorfolk.com

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BUNWELL, to St Mary. Several interesting features 900 years, standing in the south-east St Michael & All Angels most notably the Ziggurat tower. corner and within the walls of the The Old Turpike, Norwich Road, The ramp for wheelchair access is only Roman Town, Venta Icenorum. NR16 1SN available on 24 hours’ notice. Contact venta-group.org

the churchwarden or fabric ofcer, GRADE LOCAL GRID REF: TM 125927 * Open dawn to dusk. details of which are displayed on the II P C15 impressive in width and height Diocesan website. with no central pillars. Features include burghstpeter.churchnorfolk.com CARLETON FOREHOE, GRADE LOCAL medieval mass dial, war memorial * St Mary the Virgin wooden crucifx on high beam; only II P Barnham Broom Road, NR9 4AL ordnance bolt on a Norfolk church GRID REF: TG 089058 tower. Probably built on the site of an BURSTON, St Mary Keyholder phone numbers are earlier church. Diss Road, IP22 5TW given on a sign on the road on the bunwell.churchnorfolk.com GRID REF: TM 137831 way to the church.

GRADE LOCAL Key at “Crewebeer” opposite the groupof15.org I P church. GRADE * Open planned church, with disabled II P BURGH ST PETER, St Mary toilet and kitchen. Burston is the site Church Lane , NR34 0BT of the longest trade union dispute in CARLETON RODE, All Saints GRID REF: TM 493937 Britain. Church Road, NR16 1RW Open dawn to dusk. burston.churchnorfolk.com GRID REF: TM 114925

GRADE LOCAL Nestling in the wide bend of the River * Open daily 8am - 3.30pm. Waveney, the church is the most II P Consists of west tower, south porch, south-easterly in Norfolk, and has wide nave with both north and south aisles views across marsh and farmland. CAISTOR ST EDMUND, and a chancel. The fne medieval Burgh St Peter and Wheatacre were St Edmund building can be divided into three originally known as Wheatacre Burgh Stoke Road, NR14 8QN main building periods C13, C14 and and records show there being two GRID REF: TG 232031 C15. The chancel contains some churches - St Peter’s and All Saints. Open daily from 10am - 5pm (4pm contemporary stained glass (C13), Sometime after the mid C18, they from 1 November to end of March). a beautiful double angle piscina, became separate villages and the A peaceful country church which consecration crosses, and C14 Sanctus dedication of this church was changed has been in constant use for over bell. Elsewhere in the church is an 64 SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY 65

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* * I I I II II GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE COLNEY, Hospital and the University of East is a small village with Anglia. Colney family. historic links with the Barclay cringlefordchurch.co.uk details in porch. a small and welcoming Home to Norfolk near to Situated community. & Norwich Spire University Hospital, Old Watton Road, NR4 7UF Road, Watton Old 180079 TG GRID REF: locally, available readily Key Open dawn to dusk. to Open dawn claxton.churchnorfolk.com CLAXTON, St Andrew St CLAXTON, NR14 7HZ Lane, Church 327031 TG GRID REF: chetvalleychurches.org ee make and cof to tea welcome are in the kitchen use the toilet. and to be booked may for Centre Church The meetings. welcoming. Itwelcoming. has fne Norman doorways stained glass in the east and space for quiet and provides window, Visitors fection re and prayer. peace, Hardley Road, NR14 6NQ Road, Hardley 363993 TM GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn is small and All Saints church CHEDGRAVE, All Saints All CHEDGRAVE, St Peter St NR14 7BD Road, Ferry 339022 TG GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn carletonstpeter.churchnorfolk.com CARLETON ST PETER, CARLETON Elizabethan altar and a C15 painted painted altar and a C15 Elizabethan depictingmedieval screen chancel the disciples. twelve carletonrodeallsaints.co.uk EARSHAM, All Saints FERSFIELD, St Andrew FORNCETT ST PETER, Mill Road , NR35 2TQ The Street, IP22 2BL St Peter GRID REF: TM 326888 GRID REF: TM 065828 Aslacton Road, NR16 1HX Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. GRID REF: TM 165928 earshambenefce.org.uk Historic Perpendicular parish church Open at weekends only during the

GRADE LOCAL with many features. Famous for winter months, and then daily from I P its C18 Rector, the great Norfolk April - dawn to dusk. historian Francis Blomefeld, If the church is locked the key can be EAST CARLETON, St Mary born in Fersfeld, whose portrait obtained from the churchwarden. Rectory Road, NR14 8HT hangs in the south chapel, and forncett.churchnorfolk.com GRID REF: TG 179020 who is buried in the chancel. GRADE Open dawn to dusk. dissteamministry.org.uk/ I P A small medieval church, restored welcome/fersfeld GRADE in 1881, which is used regularly I FORNCETT ST MARY, for services, parish meetings and P St Mary community events. It is beautifully Low Road, NR16 1JG situated away from the road in a FLORDON, GRID REF: TM 166938 SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY WAVENEY & NORFOLK SOUTH peaceful location. St Michael & All Angels Open every day from 10am to 3pm. eastcarleton.churchnorfolk.com Of Long Lane, NR15 1RP When locked a key can be obtained

GRADE GRID REF: TM 189972 from the church cottage next door. * II P Open Saturdays. Key available ‘A gem in the Tas Valley’. Awarded locally - see notice board in porch. an Angel Award in 2015 for the ‘best ECCLES, St Mary the Virgin A hidden gem from the C11 with long rescue or repair of an historic place Quidenham Road, NR16 2PA associations with the Kemp family of worship’. GRID REF: TM 019893 who built Flordon Hall. The oldest part achurchnearyou.com/ Open daily dawn to dusk. Ramps of the present church is the western forncett-st-mary available for disabled access. half of the nave, where Anglo-Saxon GRADE LOCAL Hardstand car park adjacent to the masonry with small slit windows I P church. high in the walls, can clearly be seen. Saxon round tower. Beautiful secluded In 2009, work on re-tiling revealed FRAMINGHAM EARL, location. Site is on one of the oldest the perfectly preserved timber roof, St Andrew ecclesiastical sites in Norfolk. Largest believed to be from the early C13, Yelverton Road, NR14 7SD stone altar in East Anglia. Three bells, making it one of the oldest known GRID REF: TG 277027 one 400 years old. church roofs in Norfolk. Its round Open Saturday mornings quidenhamgroup.co.uk tower fell in 1774, to be replaced by a 10am - 12noon. Victorian bellcote. Recently adapted GRADE LOCAL Small picturesque church; Saxon * II P for use as a community centre - chancel; round tower; two C15 stained Flordon’ s only meeting place where glass windows. Cemetery rural, seating ELLINGHAM, all are made welcome. Site of Special to sit and refect; graves of interest. St Mary the Virgin Scientifc Interest nearby. framinghamearl.churchnorfolk.com mulbchurch.org.uk Church Road, Nr Ellingham GRADE LOCAL GRADE I P Marshes, NR35 2EP * II P GRID REF: TM 366918 Open Saturday afternoons June to FRAMINGHAM PIGOT, August, dependent on volunteers. FORNCETT END, St Edmund St Andrew If open a “Church Open Today” sign Long Stratton Road, NR16 1HR The Street, NR14 7QH will be displayed. GRID REF: TM 142937 GRID REF: TG 277036 C13 with medieval porch and brick Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. extension for staircase added in C19. Originally mission church for This is one of the most beautiful ellingham.churchnorfolk.com Forncett St Peter serving community examples of a Victorian church in of Forncett End and now one of the GRADE LOCAL Norfolk. The church was built in I P eight churches in the Upper Tas 1859 on the site of a small Saxon, Valley Group. or early Norman church, which had forncettend.churchnorfolk.com fallen into disrepair. It was paid for by LOCAL George Henry Christie (of the famous P London Auction House family) who had become the village squire on his marriage to Frances Taylor, who had 66 SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY 67

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GRADE LOCAL from the at risk register following six period. There is a fne C14 table tomb I P years of grant funded work. in the churchyard. The church warmly welcomes moulton.churchnorfolk.com visitors. GRADE GISSING, St Mary II* P Lower Street, IP22 5UJ greatmelton.churchnorfolk.com GRADE * GRID REF: TM 146852 II P Open dawn to dusk. GUNTON, St Peter Medieval church with round tower. Gunton Church Lane, NR32 4LQ C15 double hammerbeam roof with GREAT MOULTON, GRID REF: TM 542957 carved angels. Kemp Chapel. Largely St Michael & All Angels Open dawn to dusk. Victorian interior. Parking and toilets Carr Lane, NR15 2LD A small, round tower Norman available at pub opposite. GRID REF: TM 165907 church, restored twice. The last time gissingchurch.org Open dawn to dusk. in the late C19 giving the interior a The church consists of a west tower, GRADE LOCAL Victorian appearance. A WW1 wooden I P a nave with a south porch and north battlefeld cross is placed in the aisle, and chancel. The greater part Memorial Corner. GREAT ELLINGHAM, of what can be seen now dates from guntonstpeter.churchnorfolk.com the C12 and C15 and two drastic GRADE LOCAL St James * restorations in the C19. The tower arch II P Church Street, NR17 1LG is Norman, as is a great deal of the GRID REF: TM 020971 walling of the nave and chancel. The Open dawn to dusk. C15 porch has a contemporary roof shellrockgroup.f9.co.uk/GtEll.html and fne fushwork panelling; there GRADE LOCAL is an interesting green man. The C15 68 I P SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY 69

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* I I I II GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE groupof15.org Church Road, NR9 4EW Road, Church 035051 TG GRID REF: details available. Keyholder memorials on War South tower. wall. west HARDINGHAM, St George HARDINGHAM, St condition with one stained glass east west and commemorative window window. hapton.churchnorfolk.com GRID REF: TM 176966 TM GRID REF: locally. available Key overlookingA small church the village In of the hill. good the top from HAPTON, St Margaret St HAPTON, NR15 1SE Holly Lane, is dedicated to Sir J Arnesby Brown, RA Sir J Arnesby Brown, to is dedicated in a number the church who featured of his paintings. haddiscoe.churchnorfolk.com slab to the wife of one of them in the the wife slab to with the inscription in Dutch. nave, A bells. has a peal of fve tower The on the south side of the nave window in WWII. Notable Norman south door. WWII. Notable Norman door. south in The of St Christopher. painting Wall the drained by nearby marshes were is a ledger in the C16 and there Dutch Open dawn to dusk. to Open dawn occupies a commanding church The round its Saxon position on a hill top, a superb out, and look provides tower the Home Guard was used as such by HADDISCOE, St Mary St HADDISCOE, NR14 6PB Lane, Church 439968 TM GRID REF: Open dawn to dusk. to Open dawn hackford.churchnorfolk.com HACKFORD, HACKFORD, Virgin MarySt the 9HN NR18 Lane, Church 059022 TG GRID REF: HETHERSETT, St Remigius KENNINGHALL, St Mary KIMBERLEY, St Peter Norwich Road, NR9 3AR Church Street, NR16 2EN Wymondham Road, NR18 9EY GRID REF: TG 160049 GRID REF: TM 041860 GRID REF: TG 071041 Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk during school Open dawn to dusk. Grade II* Listed building located on term time. Key always available Rebuilt on the eve of the Reformation, the outskirts of Hethersett village. It from village shop, in Market Place, St Peter’s tower dates from the C16. is largely medieval with substantial outside those times. The main east window and the Victorian additions including some C13 chancel, with additions through window in the south nave which have interesting stained glass windows. to C15, gave the church its present just been restored contain English and st-remigius-hethersett.org.uk appearance. Contents include an continental glass of the C14 and C15

GRADE LOCAL unusual font cover and coats of arms (some of which came from Cologne * II P of Charles I and Elizabeth I. Interesting Cathedral) and which was placed here emblems at base of tower. in the C19 by the Wodehouse family. HINGHAM, St Andrew kenninghall.churchnorfolk.com groupof15.org GRADE LOCAL GRADE Attleborough Road, NR9 4HW * GRID REF: TG 021021 I P II P Open dawn to dusk. SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY WAVENEY & NORFOLK SOUTH C14 medieval church with a famous KESSINGLAND, St Edmund KIRBY BEDON, St Andrew American (USA) connection to the Church Road, NR33 7SQ NR14 7DX early settlers and the Lincoln family, GRID REF: TM 527862 GRID REF: TG 278054 set in a lively community in the heart Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. of Norfolk. Fine old C15 thatched and tiled kirbybedon.churchnorfolk.com

hingham.churchnorfolk.com church with 98ft. tower, one of the GRADE LOCAL * GRADE LOCAL tallest in East Anglia. Beautiful stained II P I P glass windows one to the east and a modern designed one to the south KIRBY CANE, All Saints HOPTON ON SEA, St which commemorates the trawler Loddon Road, NR35 2HN Margaret men of the village. GRID REF: TM 373941 Lowestoft Road, NR31 9AH kessinglandbenefce.uk Keyholder details displayed in GRID REF: TG 524000 GRADE LOCAL porch. To arrange access, see website for I P The church was built in the early 1100s details. and has a round tower which many KESWICK, All Saints believe dates from before the Norman hopton.churchnorfolk.com Of B1113, NR4 6DY conquests. LOCAL P GRID REF: TG 213047 kirbycane.churchnorfolk.com Keyholder details available. GRADE I P HOWE, St Mary the Virgin keswick.churchnorfolk.com Howe Green, NR15 1HD GRADE II P GRID REF TM 275999 KIRKLEY, Key holder details displayed in St Peter & St John porch. KETTERINGHAM, St Peter Rectory Road - St Peters Road, howe.churchnorfolk.com Church Road, NR18 9RS NR33 0ED

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* * II II GRADE GRADE but it retains a handsome medieval but it retains south-facing tower. shellrockgroup.f9.co.uk/ltell.html Open daily 8am - 6pm. stands attractively in the St Peter’s and nave The middle of the village. 1867, in fre a after rebuilt were chancel LITTLE ELLINGHAM, Peter St NR17 1JH Street, Church 005991 TM GRID REF: MUTFORD, St Andrew St MUTFORD, kirstead.churchnorfolk.com St Margaret’s dates back to the C12 the C12 back to dates St Margaret’s but was tastefully remodelled in the C19W Hayward.by H It contains a number of fne memorials to the Kerrison family. No longer open daily due to recent recent No longer open daily due to scheduled events thefts. Open for to and services appointment or by in Charge. Priest KIRSTEAD, St Margaret St KIRSTEAD, Road, Lane/Brooke Hunstead NR15 1ER 296984 TM GRID REF: SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY WAVENEY & NORFOLK SOUTH

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in 1869 to serve the Beach Village request on 01502 573046. GRADE * fshing community. During the 1953 This C15 church features the Lowestoft II P foods, the Vicar rowed a boat inside! Fishermen’s Memorial and the Today it welcomes people of all ages memorial to those from Lowestoft MORNINGTHORPE, to explore the good news of Jesus and who gave their lives in the Great War. It St John the Baptist grow as his disciples. also hosted Noye’s Fludde 2013. Church Street , NR15 2QL christ-church.info stmargaretslowestoft.co.uk GRID REF: TM 218925 LOCAL GRADE LOCAL Open dawn to dusk. P I P Grade I Listed C12 round tower church set in a tiny village. Well kept LOWESTOFT, St Andrew and well used. Roman Road, NR32 2DQ morningthorpe.churchnorfolk.com MORLEY ST BOTOLPH, GRID REF TM 544932 GRADE Open most days. St Botolph I P St Andrew’s operates as both a church Chapel Road, Attleborough, and community centre, and is open NR18 9TH MULBARTON, most days for activities. GRID REF TG 069002 For key please contact incumbent St Mary Magdalen lowestoftstandrew.churchnorfolk. Norwich, NR14 8JS com or churchwarden. morleystbotolph.churchnorfolk. GRID REF TG 194011 com Open 9am to dusk or 7pm. P The East window has a unique picture GRADE * II P of Adam as a medieval peasant digging, and the eviction from Eden. Follow the 'virtual tour' at www. mulbartonhistory.org.uk/parish- church/ as you look at the ancient 72 SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY 73

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GRADE of the original village. It has a round Hotblack hangs above the entrance I tower with a later octagonal top, to the vestry. Lovely stained glass containing a peal of fve bells. The including roundels saved following an PULHAM MARKET, chancel has canopied recesses on explosion of a V2 rocket in WWII. A few St Mary Magdalene each side, containing commemorative fint fragments east of the chancel are Main Road , IP21 4TD tablets to the Bacon family, dating all that remains of St Margaret’s church. GRID REF: TM 197860 from 1820, and a fne brass to Margaret rocklandstmary.churchnorfolk. Open to visitors from 9.30am - Castyll of 1483. The large marble com monument to Major Edmund Hodge GRADE LOCAL 4.30pm all the year round. II* P A very friendly church in beautiful in the SW corner of the nave. surroundings, and which welcomes all raveningham.churchnorfolk.com SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY WAVENEY & NORFOLK SOUTH GRADE members of our local community and * ROCKLAND ST PETER, visitors alike. Services follow a monthly II P St Peter pattern - see website for details. Bray’s Lane, NR17 1UD thebenefce.org.uk REDENHALL, Assumption of GRID REF: TL 990970

GRADE LOCAL the Blessed Virgin Mary Normally open every day I P Opp Church Close, IP20 9QW 8.30am - 4pm. GRID REF: TM 264843 St Peter’s church is thatched and Open every day. round towered. Because of a fre in The church was built in the C14 and 1947 the church has a screen removed PULHAM ST MARY, C15 and is Grade I Listed. Perhaps from Tottington St Andrew, in the St Mary the Virgin its most outstanding feature is the Stanta Army training area. The Street, IP21 4RD large and imposing west tower; shellrockgroup.f9.co.uk/RSP.html GRID REF: TM 212852 the fush-work is of the highest GRADE LOCAL Open dawn to dusk. quality. The tower contains a fne I P Large Norfolk parish church dating ring of eight bells, two of which are from 1250. “ This is a medieval church pre-reformation. Inside the church ROLLESBY, St George recreated in the hands of a master there are two remarkable medieval Fleggburgh Road, NR29 5HH craftsman” (Simon Jenkins). Pevsner lecterns, one wooden and one with GRID REF: TG 446157 described the porch as “something a magnifcent double-headed eagle Open daily. phenomenal”. The fne porch built made of brass. Round tower church which houses around 1478 with the assistance of 7churches.org.uk/redenhall the tomb of Rose Claxton and has

John Moreton, Bishop of Ely. It has GRADE LOCAL numerous beautiful stained glass some lovely stained glass windows. I P windows. Rollesby has undergone A Lady Chapel. The Chancel contains much tranformation in the last three some very interesting features. A fne ROCKLAND ST MARY, years and has services every Sunday double piscina and a screen possibly St Mary and Wednesday. dates from 1450. The stone font is St Margaret’s Way, NR14 7EY rollesbystgeorge.churchnorfolk. octagonal in shape C15, decorated GRID REF: TG 311039 com

and carved with gilded oak cover. GRADE Open every day (normally 9am * thebenefce.org.uk to 4pm). II P GRADE LOCAL St Mary’s stands in the middle of a well I P kept churchyard. The church is entered ROYDON, St Remigius by a C14 medieval door, which retains High Road , IP22 5RU QUIDENHAM, St Andrew its original handle and ironwork, and GRID REF: TM 096803 Main North South Road, NR16 2PJ a lovely arch, with a hood mould and Open daily 8am - 5pm. GRID REF: TM 028876 corbel heads. The C14 tower is of dissteamministry.org.uk/ Open from 10am until dusk all year tapered fintwork and has an original welcome/roydon round. quidenhamgroup.co.uk GRADE LOCAL I P GRADE * II P 74 SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY 75

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* * I II II GRADE GRADE GRADE SURLINGHAM, St Mary St SURLINGHAM, 2014, eight new bells installed. tasvalley.org GRID REF: TM 231972 TM GRID REF: 9am - 4pm. open from Usually with veryBeautiful medieval church in early and, old stained glass windows SAXLINGHAM NETHERGATE, SAXLINGHAM Virgin MarySt the NR15 1TD Hill, Church thorough restoration in 1878. restoration thorough thebenefce.org.uk Open dawn to dusk. to Open dawn St Mary is a simple round-tower C12. possibly dating back to church, use and is in regular church The undergone having in good repair RUSHALL, St Mary St RUSHALL, IP21 4RX Road, Harleston 197826 TM GRID REF: Medieval church with Saxon origin. Medieval with Saxon church www.groupof15.org.uk RUNHALL, All Saints All RUNHALL, NR9 4DR Road, Church 058069 TG GRID REF: Open daily. SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY WAVENEY & NORFOLK SOUTH

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SHIMPLING, SHOTESHAM, St Mary these 11, Sidney Saunders, is buried St George (CCT) Of Roger’s Lane, NR15 1UW in the churchyard and they have put Of Dickleburgh Road, IP21 4UF GRID REF: TM 237988 up a headstone for him. Another GRID REF: TM 156826 Open dawn to dusk. parishioner has almost completed Open continuously from 1 January. St Mary's dates from medieval times making kneelers for each of the fallen. A church with Norman round tower, and is built of brick and fint. The shellrockgroup.f9.co.uk/ octagonal upper stage and little spire, church is quiet and peaceful. The ruins shropham.html which was added in 1863. Inside an of the church of St Martin's are close GRADE octagonal C15 font and some pieces by and is a pleasant place to spend I P of medieval stained glass. some time. shimpling.churchnorfolk.com tasvalley.org SISLAND, St Mary GRADE GRADE LOCAL Church Road, NR14 6EF * * II P II P GRID REF: TM 344985 Open dawn to dusk in summer. Key SHOTESHAM, All Saints SHROPHAM, available for access during rest of The Street, NR15 1YB St Peter & St Paul the year. GRID REF: TM 246990 Church Road, NR17 1EJ A beautiful church in a peaceful Open daily 10am - 4pm. GRID REF: TL 984927 location which ofers you the All Saints dates from medieval times Open Wednesdays only opportunity for quiet refection and and is built of brick and fint. The 9.30am - 3.30pm. prayer. church is quiet and peaceful. A parishioner has provided extensive chetvalleychurches.org tasvalley.org information about the 11 WWI GRADE II* P GRADE LOCAL casualties recorded on the War * II P Memorial and with her husband installed a poppy for each from the Tower of London Remembers project. Arising out of this research the CWGC accepted that, although his grave cannot be located, 1 of

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* I I I I II GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE TACOLNESTON, All Saints All TACOLNESTON, All Saints All Of A143, IP21 4HS 187789 TM GRID REF: 4pm, Sundays 9am to Wednesday service 12 noon for 10.30am to is church tower C11 round This included in the parish entry for it boasts Simple in form, Domesday. one of the best preserved medieval in the region. fonts allsaintsthorpeabbotts.wordpress. com GRID REF: TM 201958 TM GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn tasvalley.org Mary St THARSTON, NR15 2YF Hall Lane, 190942 TM GRID REF: 10am - 4pm. Open daily from Mainly C15, with some good bench and memorials Sir Robert to ends, hand man right- Wellington’s Harvey, C15 font campaigns. in the Peninsular angels and roses. with lions, tasvalley.org Andrew St THELVETON, IP21 4EP Road, Church 152812 TM GRID REF: 9am - 4pm; Wednesdays Open for 10.30am - 12noon Sunday service. and on the felds, by Surrounded this is a place of peace Way, Boudicca trail is A churchyard and tranquillity. in the porch. available thebenefce.org.uk THORPE ABBOTTS, Norwich Road1EF B1113, NR16 149955 TM GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn tacolneston.churchnorfolk.com Mary St TASBURGH, NR15 1NB Lane, Church

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* I I I II GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE SOUTH LOPHAM, St Andrew St SOUTH LOPHAM, Open Wednesdays and Fridays, and Fridays, Wednesdays Open September. to May stockton.churchnorfolk.com STOCKTON, STOCKTON, Michael Angels St & All NR34 0HJ Road, Church 387941 TM GRID REF: Churchwardens. starstonvillage.co.uk Open Saturdays 10-12 noon Open Saturdays church The - October. April from other times by can be open at with the prior arrangement STARSTON, St Margaret St STARSTON, IP20 9PF Hill, Church 235843 TM GRID REF: dissteamministry.org.uk/ welcome/south-lopham cent church with with fcent church this magni county, rising a height of to its central tower sight. is an impressive 20 metres over it Sir John Betjeman late wrote The ‘worth see’. to going a long way was GRID REF: TM 039817 TM GRID REF: 10am - 4pm. Open daily from Described as one of the grandest in the pieces of Norman architecture Church Road, IP22 2LW Road, Church windows to Lords of the Manor. of the Manor. Lords to windows somerleyton.churchnorfolk.com November. November. on SomerleytonBeautiful church C14 1309. C15 screen dating from Estate Memorial stained glass and font. SOMERLEYTON, St Mary St SOMERLEYTON, NR32 5PR O Road, f Blundeston 493972 TM GRID REF: to Open - 5pm daily Easter 10am THORPE-NEXT-HADDISCOE, THUXTON, St Paul "The Seven Ages of Britain" and also St Matthias Station Lane, NR9 4QL in "Country Life". Well-worn medieval Church Road, NR14 6PT GRID REF: TG 032071 pew ends also still survive in this GRID REF: TM 436981 Planned visiting only. Please unspoilt church. The Visitors’ Book and Open dawn to dusk. contact 01362 858021 to arrange. others record the atmosphere as calm The ancient church and Thorpe Hall groupof15.org and light, with a welcoming feeling.

dominate the landscape on the edge GRADE Wheelchair-accessible by prior request of a plateau with spectacular views I P (no services or facilities). overlooking the Haddiscoe Marshes tivetshall.churchnorfolk.com and the valley of the River Waveney. GRADE THWAITE, St Mary I P Parts of the church dates from the C11. Bungay Road, NR35 2EG Saxon round tower with Norman bell GRID REF: TM 333950 stage and two bells dating from the Open dawn to dusk. TIVETSHALL ST MARY, C15 and C17. The chancel was rebuilt A pretty little church on the north St Mary (Ruin) in brick in 1838. Small monument to side of the Waveney Valley. Thatched NR15 2AL Thomas London died 1661 whose nave, with no windows on north GRID REF: TM 166858 family lived at Thorpe Hall. side, moveable pews and a Norman Open dawn to dusk. SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY WAVENEY & NORFOLK SOUTH thorpenexthaddiscoe. doorway. The ruined St Mary’s church dates churchnorfolk.com thwaitestmary.churchnorfolk.com from the C13. The earliest of its fve GRADE GRADE medieval construction phases is * I P II P pre-1200 and could even be the one mentioned in the Domesday Book THURLTON, All Saints TIBENHAM, All Saints (1086). Sadly, the tower collapsed in Church Road, NR14 6RN Church Road, NR16 1QB 1947, believed due to the vibrations GRID REF: TM 417983 GRID REF: TM 134898 of a low-fying aircraft. The whole Open dawn to dusk. Open hours in porch with contact church had previously fallen into a The church stands on a promontory, details. state of decay over many years. Today overlooking the valley of the beck and Mostly fint construction with it stands safely as a proud shell in the marshes to the north. The Norman early Saxon features in North Wall. beautiful South Norfolk landscape just south door, now on the north side is of Exceptionally tall C14 tower, with a fne of Boudicca’s (Boadicea’s) Way. The particular interest. The tower contains set of six bells - one of the heaviest annual Armistice Day Service takes a unique peal of fve C17 bells, the in the county. Chancel C13, the rest place in the churchyard, where the War only complete set by the Norwich bell is C14. Splendid Nave roof. Jacobean Memorial for St Mary’s is situated. foundry to survive intact. Wall painting Pulpit, Carolingian unique elevated norfolkchurches.co.uk/ of St Christopher. Hourglass pulpit “Buxton family pew” which was granted tivetshallmary/tivetshallmary.htm and medieval screen with some fne GRADE a faculty from Archbishop Laud. P II* decoration including the “Thurlton tibenham.fsnet.co.uk

Dragon”, but missing its panels. GRADE thurlton.churchnorfolk.com I P TOFT MONKS, St Margaret GRADE LOCAL Pound Lane, NR34 0EX I P TIVETSHALL ST MARGARET, GRID REF: TM 426952 St Margaret Open dawn to dusk. THURTON, St Ethelbert Hall Road, NR15 2BD The church has a fne and rare C13 Of Loddon Road, NR14 6AN GRID REF: TM 163870 octagonal tower. The tower contains GRID REF: TG 328006 Open dawn to dusk. a circular core of an earlier period and Open dawn to dusk. Welcomes visitors every day of the has three bells. There are windows and This well cared for and peaceful year. This little gem of a church is a south porch of the perpendicular Norman church has notable window picturesquely surrounded by open period. The chancel contains a fne but glass, medieval wall paintings and a farmland, but is easily accessible. Its incomplete alabaster monument to conservation churchyard. simple and historic interior conveys a John Bayspool, who died 1653. thurton.churchnorfolk.com strong sense of peace and tranquillity. toftmonks.churchnorfolk.com GRADE GRADE LOCAL The beautifully restored 1587 Queen I P I P Elizabeth I Tympanum featured in David Dimbleby’s BBC programme

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* * * * II II II II GRADE GRADE GRADE GRADE BELTON, caisteronsea.churchnorfolk.com of Caister-on-Sea. The east window east window The of Caister-on-Sea. those who died in the commemorates The of 1901. Disaster Lifeboat Caister WWI to are the village memorials from in the church. be found Norwich NR30 5JN Road, 519122 TG GRID REF: dusk. to Open dawn at the crossroads parishThe church CAISTER-ON-SEA, Trinity Holy stained glass, typicalstained glass, East Anglican lion and links with St Fursey. font burghcastle.churchnorfolk.com March - November 10am - 3.30pm; - November March services for - February December normally 9am - 11am. back 1000 date of the church Parts fcent is its magni of note Worthy years. St Peter & St Paul & St Peter St NR31 9QG Road, Church 476049 TG GRID REF: - OctoberOpen April 10am -5pm; BURGH CASTLE, BURGH BRADWELL, St NicholasBRADWELL, St nd what you are are will fnd what you hope that you ancient an have We us. lookingwith for modernof lot activities. a with building stnicholasbradwell.co.uk Open Wednesdays 9am -1pm. 9am Wednesdays Open questions, big have Whether you a have fnd out more, wanting to are faith or a long-establishedyoung faith, and all, er a warm to welcome of we Upper Church Walk, NR31 8QQ Walk, Upper Church 503038 TG GRID REF: in porch. belton.churchnorfolk.com Church Lane, NR31 9JN NR31 Lane, Church 485029 TG GRID REF: details locally, available readily Key DEVLIN PLUMMER STAINED GLASS

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Wherever you look in Norfolk and All churches are cared for by dedicated North-East Sufolk you’ll see a church volunteers. There may be occasions when a tower beckoning you across the wide church cannot be open; please check individual open spaces of the countryside. church websites for details and Sunday service dates and times. Our churches have a character all of their own. From tiny Saxon parish churches to the great If you require any further information Cathedral of Norwich there is so much to see contact 01603 880853 or and enjoy. Whether you’re in the Brecks, on the [email protected] Broads, at the coast or in towns and villages – historic churches abound.

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