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Visit www.brightmap.org Welcome CONTENTS Wells-next-the-Sea Burnham Hunstanton Market Cromer Holt NORTH NORFOLK North Walsham Fakenham 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 KEY WEST NORFOLK & THE FENS 4 P Visitor parking nearby Toilets nearby NORTH NORFOLK 14 Footpath, trail or cycle route Wheelchair accessible THE BROADS 32 LOCAL Shop(s) or amenities nearby NORWICH 44 Rood Screen Important Stained Glass BRECKS & THETFORD FOREST 50 Staithe SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY 61 Wall Painting GRADE I Grade Listing GREATER YARMOUTH 80 Angel 3 WEST NORFOLK & THE FENS THE & NORFOLK WEST DERSINGHAM, St Nicholas West Norfolk and the Fens 4 ANMER, St Mary the Virgin BARTON BENDISH, CASTLE ACRE, St James FENS THE & NORFOLK WEST Of King’s Avenue, PE31 6RW St Andrew Stocks Green, Castle Acre, PE32 2AE GRID REF: TF 737295 Church Road, PE33 9GF GRID REF: TF 815150 Open most days during Summer. GRID REF: TF 71217 05687 Open dawn to dusk. Notice board is displayed at the end of Open daily during daylight hours. A large church, altered in C14 & C15. the lane when the church is opened. St Andrew’s is a medieval church with Contains 25 foot high canopied Font anmer.churchnorfolk.com some parts dating from the C11. It cover, Wine Glass Pulpit and the GRADE is one of two surviving churches in Dado of the Rood Screen, all with the * II P the village and has unusual C17 box medieval painted work in excellent pews and the only Halmshaw organ condition. A church full of interesting ASHWICKEN, All Saints in Norfolk. items for any visitor. Of Church Lane, PE32 1LN achurchnearyou.com/ narvalleygroup.org.uk GRID REF: TF 698188 barton-bendish-st-andrew GRADE LOCAL GRADE I P Open dawn to dusk. LOCAL I P Dating from 1300s, built of fint and stone with stepped buttresses. The east window features the Good BIRCHAM NEWTON, Samaritan, the Millennium window All Saints CASTLE RISING, St Lawrence features wild fowers and there is Honey Hill (B1153), PE31 6QR PE31 6AG a commemorative window for the GRID REF: TF 769338 GRID REF: TF 666248 Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The church Open dawn to dusk. Open dawn to dusk. is also renowned for its baptismal shell. dockingbenefce.co.uk castlerising.churchnorfolk.com GRADE ggmbenefce.uk GRADE * I P GRADE II P * II P BOUGHTON, All Saints CLENCHWARTON, BAGTHORPE, St Mary Church Lane, PE33 9AQ St Margaret Bagthorpe Road, PE31 6QY GRID REF: TF 69993 02220 Church Road, PE34 GRID REF: TM 75993221 Open in winter months, by GRID REF: TF 58942 20210 Open dawn to dusk. appointment but from Easter until Open Sundays when there are Gothic revival (Early English) church by the end of September it is open on services. Key available other times. W J Donthorne built 1853/54. Norman Saturdays & Sundays, 9am - 5pm. A delightful, if simple, church on a site font is the only feature preserved from It’s a Victorian building on an earlier on which worship has been ofered old church which was demolished footprint, with Grade II Listed tower. since the C13; one that proves that in 1853. Redundant church cared The pews were removed some years big is not always best! In the Diocese for by the Norfolk Churches Trust. ago to enable the building of kitchen of Ely. norfolkchurchestrust.org and toilet, as the village has no village achurchnearyou.com/ GRADE church/14004/ * hall. The church has been adapted to II P GRADE LOCAL serve as a community space. II* P achurchnearyou.com/ BARMER, All Saints broughton-all-saints In the middle of a feld. Access on GRADE CONGHAM, St Andrew * foot by farm track of Fakenham II P Of St Andrew’s Lane, PE32 1DT Road (B1454), PE31 8SP GRID REF: TF 712236 GRID REF: TF80903361 BRANCASTER, See website for keyholder details. Open dawn to dusk in summer St Mary the Virgin ggmbenefce.uk months. Otherwise by arrangement GRADE Broad Lane, PE31 8AW II* P with local keyholder. GRID REF: TF 772438 C12 west round tower & chancel arch. Open dawn to dusk. C13 nave. Church already a ruin by brancaster.churchnorfolk.com early C17. Restored as mausoleum for GRADE the Kerslake family by Frederick Preedy I P in 1885. Redundant church cared for by the Norfolk Churches Trust. Park in Barmer Road and walk to church. norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk GRADE * II P 5 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 GRADE * II P 6 WEST NORFOLK & THE FENS THE & NORFOLK WEST 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.