Cards on the table, Thetford. is. a. hellhole. Whoever is responsible for traffic management should be sacked and the people responsible for its development need to be held accountable for what Simon Knott memorably describes as the "rape of Thetford". Generally I find this area of Norfolk to be amongst the most attractive of East Anglian delights but Thetford is an irradicable stain. It also appears to be fairly Godless [unsurprising] since two of its old churches are redundant and the third locked. It's a soul destroying town.
Holy Sepulchre is a ruined Augustine Priory rather implausibly situated in the middle of a modern housing estate. It suffers by comparison to the Priory of Our Lady.
THE CANONS, Brandon Road. Remains of the Augustinian Priory of St Sepulchre, founded in about 1139. Aisleless nave. The W wall stands high up. The chancel has disappeared. Little of details.
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