Brettenham, Norfolk

St Mary, locked, keyholder listed, is internally dire. It is utterly lacking character or atmosphere and I regretted the time wasted getting the key. It does have a good Norman south doorway and I liked its location and exterior.

ST MARY. Essentially by S. S. Teulon, 1852 (cf. Shadwell Park). He was employed by Lady Buxton to remodel and improve an old church. Of this the Norman S doorway was kept, with one order of patterned shafts, volute capitals, and zigzag in the arch, and also the W tower and the nave masonry. The new work is Dec and has none of the assertive Teulon style, except perhaps in the octagonal N vestry. - COMMUNION RAIL and SCREEN BASE of alabaster. - TOWER SCREEN of iron and certainly worth noting. - STAINED GLASS, according to TK by Gibbs, Wilmshurst & Oliphant and Ward & Nixon. - PLATE. Elizabethan Chalice and Paten.

As I said in my last post Mee completely missed this area in my edition of Norfolk [fifth edition 1951].

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