Norfolk Churches

I have enjoyed visiting Norfolk churches for years, often stumbling on them on bike rides. Many sit lonely in fields, their villages having moved their focus over the centuries. Some are simple and humble, a few are grand and spectacular, but many reveal secrets forgotten or barely known except to a few experts, or individuals who help maintain them and keep them open. The atmosphere inside is usually very calm and peaceful. These photos are not an attempt to systematically chronicle their greatest treasures, but aim to give a feeling of their atmosphere, of the skill of local craftsmen, and highlight parts in them that I have found interesting.

Ingham doorway

Burlingham St Peter

Castle Acre priory

Barton Turf, Rood screen

Barton Turf, Rood screen

Barton Turf, Rood screen

Barton Turf, Rood screen

Cawston

Cawston roof

Cawston, s. transept ceiling

Cawston

Cawston glass

Norwich cathedral

Norwich cathedral, new window

Norwich cathedral

Burnham Thorpe, Nelson’s church

Cley

Cley brass

Cley, brass

Crostwight key

Crostwight entrance

Crostwight memorial

Crostwight, St Christopher (right)

Trunch porch

Norwich, St Stephens, church wall

East Ruston Recording angel (representing St Mathew)

Gt Hockham

Edingthorpe

Edingthorpe rood screen – St Bartholomew

Edingthorpe font and door

Hales

Hales

Heckington

Heckington

Houghton on the Hill

Houghton on the Hill

Houghton on the Hill, the last trump

Norwich, St Andrews, Dance of Death

Little Witchingham

Little Witchingham

Little Witchingham

Ingham

Norwich, St Andrews, Suckling tomb

Salle, roof boss

Norwich St John Maddermarket

St John Maddermarket, Sotherton memorial

St John Maddermarket Sotherton Memorial

Norwich, St Helens (St Mark pew end)

Norwich, St Helens (Great Hospital)

Norwich, St Helens

Cawston, St Mathew (I didn’t draw them in, honest)

Sutton sundial

Trunch pew end

Weybourne pew end

Warham St Mary Magdelene. A medieval Dr Dre

Walpole St Peter

Walpole, pew end

Walpole St Peter, pew end

Denton church

Denton East window.

Denton

Denton

Denton

Denton (slaughtering an ox)

Denton

Denton

Wickhampton

Wickhampton (the Mercies)

Wickhampton (tending the dead)

Wickhampton tending to a prisoner

Burlingham St Edmund pulpit

Burlinghham St Edmund. Top of Norman doorway

Thurgarton, elephant and castle

Acle Rood – arms of St Edmund

Acle font

Acle font (wodehouse: wildman)

Hardley

Hardley font, St Christopher and St Catherine

East Ruston

Moulton St Mary

Moulton

Moulton St Mary

Moulton St Mary

Hemblington

Hemblington, part of St Christopher story

Haddiscoe porch

Haddiscoe

Felbrigg

Burlingham St Peter

Burlingham St Peter

Burlingham St Peter

Burlingham St Peter

Burlingham St Peter

Burlingham St Peter

Burlinghham St Edmund. Top of Norman doorway

Cawston, angel roof

Cawston, St Agnes

Thurgarton, elephant and castle

Burlingham St Edmund

Denton

Walpole St Peter

Roundel (Wickhampton)

Hardley

Hardley font

Hardley, graffitti

Hardley floor tomb

Moulton font

Ingham

Moulton, doorway

Moulton

Denton

Denton

Denton roof boss – Christ ascending

Great Hockham

Haddiscoe

Haddiscoe

Happisburgh

Edingthorpe

East Ruston

Haddiscoe font

Gt Witchingham

Wickhampton

Wickhampton

Wickhampton, Sir William Gerbigge

Wickhampton, Lady Gerbigge

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