Riddlesworth, Norfolk

St Nicholas, locked, keyholders listed [but with the proviso that immediate access cannot be guaranteed - so I didn't bother] is a perfectly pleasant church and you'd never find it unless you'd specifically researched it. So why it's locked is a mystery. Simon Knott posits that it's because Princess Diana went to school here and it's locked to prevent trophy hunters stripping it bare. Whatever the reason I would have liked to have seen Drue Drury's monument [he's my 12th x great grandfather].

ST PETER. W tower of c.1300 with a tall doorway from the S. Nave and chancel, the windows all renewed. - PULPIT. From Knettishall, Jacobean, with back-panel and tester. - COMMUNION RAIL. With twisted balusters; late C17. - FONT COVER. Jacobean or later; plain. - PAINTINGS. Two restored panels from a screen (Saints) in the chancel panelling. - PLATE. Norwich-made Chalice of 1567-8 and Paten of 1640. - MONUMENT. Sir Drue Drury d. 1617. Very good tablet with kneeling knight and two splendidly Mannerist angels in long garments holding a curtain open.

Mee missed it.