Vol. XXXV No. 3 March 2008 XXXV MarchVol. 3 No. Vol XXXV N0. 3 March 2008 Printed by City College Printroom, Norwich All Saint’s Church, Horsey, Norfolk 50p to non-members ITEMS FOR SALE BY THE SOCIETY ROUND TOWER CHURCHES SOCIETY Tea Towels-Five Suffolk or five Norfolk Churches £2.75 Plus 50p p&p Notelets-Suffolk or Norfolk Churches, 10 with envelopes £1.30 Plus 60p p&p PATRON HRH The Prince of Wales Bookmarks-Red leather with logo/Society name in gold £1.00 Plus 20p p&p FOUNDER Mr W.J. Goode Neckties-Red £6.00 Plus 46p p&p CHAIRMAN Mr Stuart Bowell East Anglian Round Tower Churches Guide 2 Hall Road, Chilton Hall, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 1TN Revised edition of A5 booklet £1.00 Plus 20p p&p Tel: 01449 614336 Round Tower Churches of South East England VICE-CHAIRMAN Mrs Anne Haward By W J Goode £10.00 Post free* 12 Church Green, Broomfield, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 7BD The Round Church Towers of England - By S Hart £15.99 Post free* Tel: 01245 440225 The Round Tower Churches of Norfolk £10.99 Post free* SECRETARY Mrs ’Lyn Stilgoe By Dorothy Shreeve and ‘Lyn Stilgoe Crabbe Hall, Burnham Market, King’s Lynn PE31 8EN Tel: 01328 738237 email: [email protected] Round Tower Churches to the West, East and South of Norwich By Jack Sterry £10.99 Post free* TREASURER Mr Richard Barham Round Tower Churches on the Norfolk and Suffolk Borders 6 The Warren, Old Catton, Norwich, NR6 7NW By Jack Sterry £9.99 Post free* Tel: 01603 788721 Round Tower Churches. Hidden Treasure of North Norfolk GRANTS OFFICER Mr Nick Wiggin By Jack Sterry £9.99 Post free* Fir Tree Cottage, Witnesham, Ipswich, Suffolk IP6 9EX Tel: 01473 785596 *These items are posted at no extra cost. Please forward orders to: - Mr E Spelman, 105 Norwich Road, New Costessey, PUBLICITY OFFICER Mr Edgar Spelman Norwich NR5 0LF. Cheques payable to The Round Tower Churches Society. & POSTAL CLERK 105 Norwich Road, New Costessey, Norwich NR5 0LF Tel: 01603 743607 WOLTERTON AND MANNINGTON ESTATES LECTURERS Mr Stuart Bowell (see above) The Lord and Lady Walpole (Slide Shows) Mrs Anne Haward (see above) Mr Richard Barham (see above) Mr John Scales Pastons, 30 Stoke Road, Poringland, Norwich NR14 7JL Tel: 01508 493680 COMMITTEE Mrs Mandy Ray WOLTERTON MANNINGTON MEMBERS 83 Barrons Way, Comberton, Cambridge CB3 7DR GARDENS & COUNTRYSIDE Mrs Teresa Wiggin PARK Fir Tree Cottage, Witnesham, Ipswich, Suffolk IP6 9EX HISTORIC PARK around eighteenth century COUNTRYSIDE Walks and Trails. mansion. Park open every day from 9 am. Park open every day from 9 am. Car Park £2.00 Tel: 01473 785596 Car Park £2.00 GARDENS. Extensive beautiful gardens Mr Stephen Hart Trails - Orienteering - Adventure Playground surround medieval moated manor. 20 High Street, Easton on the Hill, Stamford PE9 3LR Round Tower of St. Margaret's Church in Park. Heritage Rose Garden Tel: 01780 762152 Hall open Fridays from 11th April to 24th Tearooms - Shop - Plants and Roses. Ms Susan Williams October, 2-5 pm (last tour 4 pm) £5.00. Open May-September, Sundays 12-5 pm Write or telephone for details and for special June-August. Weds. Thurs, & Fridays 11-5 pm Ivy Farm, Witton, Norfolk NR28 9TT events programme. £5.00/£4.00 Children Free. Events Programme. Tel: 01692 650994 Mannington & Wolterton Estates Norwich NR11 7BB Telephone Saxthorpe (01263) 584175/768444 Website: www.roundtowers.org.uk Registered Charity No.267996 Email: [email protected] Registered Address: Crabbe Hall, Burnham Market, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE31 8EN 50 71 ROUND TOWER CHURCHES SOCIETY W.J.Goode—Founder Round Tower Churches Society 2008 TOURS As we go to press we have received the very sad news that our Tour and AGM 10th May founder, Bill Goode, has passed away. There will be a full appreciation of his work and contribution to the society in the June 10.30am Wacton (TM 179 917), Shimpling, Gissing magazine. This follows the recent death of his old friend and long 2.15pm Annual General Meeting Gissing Village Hall term member of the society Mr Brian Harmer. Saturday Tours – first church 2.30pm th EDITORIAL THE ROUND TOWER 7 June Norton Subcourse (TM 407 986), With talk of a small fork, a broken The quarterly magazine of the Thorpe next Haddiscoe, Haddiscoe spade and strawberries, you would be Round Tower Churches Society th 5 July Worthing (TF 995 196), Bylaugh, Morton on the Hill forgiven for thinking that you had nd received a copy of Allotment Vol. XXXV No. 3 March 2008 2 August Brome (TM 145 765), Syleham, Weybread, (Suffolk) Monthly. However, all will be 6th September Intwood (TG196 042), Keswick, Swainsthorpe revealed as we peak inside an unusual Horsey, All Saints 52 church building in Essex and then nd NB all in Norfolk except for 2 August. take a look at the work of Sir Ninian Rotunda of The Holy Cross 57 Comper. Further reading takes us via a simple, rural church at Horsey, to Church Building at Pentlow 58 Church Tours – Sundays, first church 2.30pm the Rotunda in Prague and the round towers of Bliesgau. The agenda for Sir Ninian Comper 60 20th April Upper Sheringham, Beeston Regis, West Runton, the AGM is published on page 69 and Overstrand the new Tours Programme is featured on page 70. St Augustine’s Abbey 64 th 18 May Sprowston, Rackheath, Salhouse, Woodbastwick Bliesgau 66 15th June Docking, Burnham Westgate, Burnham Sutton The next issue is June 2008 and the deadline for insertion is Friday 25th cum Ulph, Burnham Thorpe April 2008. AGM Agenda 69 20th July Saham Toney, Ovington, Carbrooke, Scoulton Please send all items to:- 2008 Tour Programme 70 Church Tours, visiting Norfolk Churches, were organised by Richard Butler-Stoney from 1970 till 2003. Tea will be provided and these Susan Williams Society Officers 71 Sunday Tours end with a Service, usually Evensong at 6 or 6.30pm. Ivy Farm Witton North Walsham Everyone is welcome to attend either Tours, which are free. Norfolk. NR28 9TT Cover drawing: Dot Shreeve Tel: 01692 650994 Interiors of Horsey: courtesy of Any queries about either Tours phone ‘Lyn Stilgoe - 01328 738237. Email: [email protected] www.norfolkchurches.co.uk 70 51 HORSEY, ALL SAINTS Sheet 134. Map ref. T.G. 458 231 ROUND TOWER NEWS The church consists of a round tower with an octagonal belfry stage, a continuous nave and chancel about 16 feet wide without a chancel arch, We have had a number of enquiries concerning the content of the under a thatched roof, and a south porch also with a thatched roof. AGM in May—please find below the proposed agenda... th The nave and chancel are built of THE 35 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING uncoursed flint rubble and, the north THE VILLAGE HALL, side in particular, still bears remnants RECTORY ROAD, GISSING of a harling finish. A simple, pointed, th once-chamfered stone door in the nave SATURDAY, 10 MAY, 2008, AT 2.15pm west wall and a trefoiled lancet window in the chancel south wall, A G E N D A which show no indications of having been inserted later, establish the nave * Welcome and Opening Prayers. and chancel to be of the Early English * Apologies for absence. period. Their other windows are from * Minutes of the last AGM held on 12.5.2007. the 19th century or later restorations. * Chairman’s Review of the Year. The side walls are quite low and just * Treasurer’s Report. under 2'6" thick. External and internal * Grants Report. measurements taken at the west ends * Election of Committee Members and appointment of the north and south walls show that of Officers. the nave west wall is about 2'8" thick * Election of Auditor. south of the tower but about a foot * Any Other Business. thicker on the north side. This extra View of the tower from the north-east thickness is visible at the top of the Please note the above may be subject to change. NW corner where there are ————————— renewed dressed stone quoins, and as the flintwork of this wall is different XXXV No 2 December 2007 magazine - the Houghton on the Hill drawing from that of the nave north wall, it seems that a later facing has been added. was incorrectly attributed, it should have read Robert Ladbrooke and not John Ladbrooke.... The basis for a Saxon attribution for the nave has been a few flints in its SW corner which have been thought of as original Saxon flint quoins. This corner has been much repaired and now comprises mainly bricks Annual Membership Subscription: interspersed with a few small flints and some very weather-worn quoin Minimum £10 (overseas £15) of which 40% is for the printing and posting of stones at the top. The amount of brick in this corner relative to the small The Round Tower and administration, with the balance going to the Repair Fund. number of flints in it suggests that those flints are not original flint quoins but are simply part of the reconstruction of this corner. They are all small Magazines are published on the 1st of March, June, September and December. Membership renewal date is the first of these dates following the walling material, not quoin-size flints and some are knapped. It is application for membership. inconceivable that a builder repairing the corner with the amount of brick that has been used would have made the repair around and between To join the Society, please contact the Treasurer whose address and occasional retained small flints! It is more likely that the corner may have telephone number is on the inside back cover.