Tuesday 30 October 2018

Croxton, Norfolk

All Saints, locked, keyholders listed...except they're not because the telephone numbers don't include the area code so this should read - All Saints, locked. That being said the notice also notes that "the church will be open every Saturday from March to November between 10am and 4pm" so that's all right then. If I was to be brutally honest I think I'd say that apart from the tower there's little of interest here.

ALL SAINTS. Round tower with polygonal top stage perhaps of the C14 and a short slated spire. Chancel with an early C13 priest’s doorway. Slightly pointed, one slight chamfer, hood-mould with dog-tooth. The N and S windows of the chancel and nave point to c.1300, but are renewed or new. E window of three lights Dec. E buttresses with flushwork decoration. S aisle of the C14, see the three-bay arcade. Octagonal piers, double-chamfered arches. The chancel arch goes with the arcade. Early Tudor clerestory faced with knapped flint. Good hammerbeam roof inside. - FONTS. One is big, octagonal, Perp, and may originally have had reliefs of the Seven Sacraments (Cautley). The other is a modest wooden C18 baluster. - PLATE. Chalice, undated, probably Georgian.

All Saints (5)

Priest's door (1)

Cross

Bizarrely [?] another one Mee missed.

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