Illington, Norfolk

St Andrew, open [but keyholder listed if not], is in the care of, and was restored by, the Norfolk Churches Trust and is a delight. It took some finding as it's not easily visible from the road and is not signposted but once found never forgotten.

ST ANDREW. Norman nave, of which one S and one N window and the inner outline of the N doorway are preserved. Of the former S aisle remains of two separate arches survive, separated by a chunk of solid wall (with the Norman window). Perp chancel and Perp W tower. The tower has niches l. and r. of the doorway, nice sound-holes, buttresses with chequered flushwork, and battlements with panelling in flushwork. - BIER. Jacobean, like a converted table. - SCULPTURE. Alabaster fragments. - PLATE. Elizabethan Flagon and Cup; Caudle Cup and Cover, the latter dated 1671; Almsdish, 1714.

Another one Mee missed - he missed a few north of Thetford.

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