Great Witchingham Norfolk
Church of St Mary, Great Witchingham, Norfolk stands alone except for the old vicarage, a farmhouse and a few cottages. There has been a church here from the end of the 11c or even earlier. The present building consists of a square 14c west tower, nave with north and south aisles and small south (unfinished) transept, 15c south porch. and chancel the earliest part dating from the time of Richard the first vicar who is recorded here in 1290 when his house was burgled !
The south aisle was built in 1363 by Sir William de Wychingham, judge of the common pleas whose gravestone survives. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/kS9hM0
The tower holding 2 bells, contains an upper room which was probably the chamber of a Chantry priest which has a fireplace and a latrine.
Over the nave is an arch-braced roof www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/m5Z5y6 with carved angels down the spine www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/e8091g
The late 15c Seven Sacrament Fon retains much of its original colour. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2dEitf
The windows are all clear glass.
The altars at the east end of the aisles are in the places occupied in medieval times by ones dedicated to St John the Baptist and St Margaret. The east wall of the south aisle is possibly where the e Berney family chapel was
There were many altars here in medieval times, there were lights of St Nicholas (wills of 1488 & 1513); St Christopher (1437, 1513); St Anne (1513); St Anthony (1513); St Thomas of Canterbury (1513); Holy Trinity (1473, 1488); Our Lady of Pity 1473, 1488); St James (1488) ; Hallow Mass (1513) .
The rood loft was "pluked down" in 1561. The 1558 inventory says 24 candlesticks were placed along the rood beam, and high above the roof at that point was coloured as a canopy of honour.
Later in 1674 Oliver Le Never gave another screen inscribed "Christ eates the pascall lambe, a sign to bee, of the new covenant's most sacred tie. His flesh He gives us t'eate and bloud to drinke and when we do it, bids us on Him thinke" That screen is also long gone.
Great Witchingham Norfolk
Church of St Mary, Great Witchingham, Norfolk stands alone except for the old vicarage, a farmhouse and a few cottages. There has been a church here from the end of the 11c or even earlier. The present building consists of a square 14c west tower, nave with north and south aisles and small south (unfinished) transept, 15c south porch. and chancel the earliest part dating from the time of Richard the first vicar who is recorded here in 1290 when his house was burgled !
The south aisle was built in 1363 by Sir William de Wychingham, judge of the common pleas whose gravestone survives. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/kS9hM0
The tower holding 2 bells, contains an upper room which was probably the chamber of a Chantry priest which has a fireplace and a latrine.
Over the nave is an arch-braced roof www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/m5Z5y6 with carved angels down the spine www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/e8091g
The late 15c Seven Sacrament Fon retains much of its original colour. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2dEitf
The windows are all clear glass.
The altars at the east end of the aisles are in the places occupied in medieval times by ones dedicated to St John the Baptist and St Margaret. The east wall of the south aisle is possibly where the e Berney family chapel was
There were many altars here in medieval times, there were lights of St Nicholas (wills of 1488 & 1513); St Christopher (1437, 1513); St Anne (1513); St Anthony (1513); St Thomas of Canterbury (1513); Holy Trinity (1473, 1488); Our Lady of Pity 1473, 1488); St James (1488) ; Hallow Mass (1513) .
The rood loft was "pluked down" in 1561. The 1558 inventory says 24 candlesticks were placed along the rood beam, and high above the roof at that point was coloured as a canopy of honour.
Later in 1674 Oliver Le Never gave another screen inscribed "Christ eates the pascall lambe, a sign to bee, of the new covenant's most sacred tie. His flesh He gives us t'eate and bloud to drinke and when we do it, bids us on Him thinke" That screen is also long gone.