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St Michael, Great Cressingham, Norfolk
For many years an absolute fortress, this church now has a friendly keyholder.
The road leading into Little Cressingham. We have walked another nine miles, time to head back to base :-(
St Andrew, Little Cressingham, Norfolk
The exterior is memorable, for the tower partly fell, taking out the west end of the nave and its aisles and leaving a truncated space wider than it is long. An elegant, characterful interior.
St Andrew, Little Cressingham, Norfolk
The exterior is memorable, for the tower partly fell, taking out the west end of the nave and its aisles and leaving a truncated space wider than it is long. An elegant, characterful interior.
St Michael, Great Cressingham, Norfolk
For many years an absolute fortress, this church now has a friendly keyholder.
arish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Lead, slate and pantile roofs. West tower; aisled nave with south porch; chancel. Mid C15 west tower designed by James Woderofe. Diagonal buttresses and a stair turret to north east. West doorway with dying mouldings, traceried spandrels and a traceried frieze above with letter 'M' alternating with blank shields. Tall 3-light panel-traceried window above. Clock face to second floor with cusped ogee-headed single-light windows to north and south. 2-light bell openings with cusped soufflets. Crenellated and blind-traceried parapet with corner finials. C15 south porch also by James Woderofe. Ashlar faced to south and west. Moulded entrance arch on shafted responds with niche above. Mutilated carving of St. Michael in niche. Flushwork plinth frieze of letter 'M'. Moulded south doorway with a late medieval 2-leaf door. South aisle with five 3-light panel-traceried windows. Similar north aisle with a blocked doorway of two hollow-chamfered orders. Eight fine 2-light clerestorey windows in Decorated style with multi-cusped soufflets. Chancel has eight 2-light windows with simple cusped tracery suggesting a late C13 date. Priest's doorway and blocked leper's window to south. Exceptional 5-light Perpendicular east window with staggered carved transoms, mouchettes and daggers. C13 clasping buttresses surmounted by grouped shafts, resembling late C12 and early C13 pier forms, themselves topped with pinnacles.
INTERIOR. 4-bay arcades of 1885 in Perpendicular style. Western responds, some polygonal bases and the south eastern respond survived the restoration. The south-west respond and bell capital are C13 with grouped shafts and a C14 or C15 heightening re-using the original deeply carved capital. Massive tower arch with mouldings dying into plain jambs. Hollow-chamfered chancel arch on triple shaft responds: the north respond and arch have been renewed. Restored C15 north aisle roof with roll-moulded principals. Hammberbeam nave roof with hammers to alternate principal trusses. Carved hammers and wooden wall post corbels representing angels, prophets and prelates. Wall plates with brattishing. Chancel with four bays of C13 wall arcading consisting of single, practically freestanding, shafts on water holding bases supporting deeply moulded bell capitals and very pointed plain chamfered arches. There is some evidence to suggest that these arcades were at least intended to open into aisles. Surviving rood stair to north which served also as a squint from north aisle. Fine C14 multi-cusped piscina. Jacobean panelling in south aisle and some late-Medieval poppy-head bench ends. Medieval brasses.
Wind & Water Mill, Fairstead Lane, Little Cressingham, Norfolk, 1821.
The Pumphouse.
Grade ll* listed.
The Pumphouse.
For raising water to the gardens of Clermont Hall. Early C19.
Limewashed brick with some stone dressings. Slate roof.
Machinery intact with an iron breast shot waterwheel driving a three-throw pump designed by Joseph Bramah.
Listed II* for the rare Bramah pump.
Little Cressingham mill was rebuilt in 1821 and despite its dual power source, this was only a small mill. The watermill was a single storey brick building with a slate roof that housed an iron breast-shot water wheel, 12 feet in diameter and 6 feet wide. The windmill was a six storey 50ft tower mill that housed two pairs of wind powered stones in the upper storeys and another two pairs of stones in the lower section driven by the water wheel.
Little Cressingham mill was a rare combination of a wind and watermill working together. The only other Norfolk examples are Burnham Overy Union mills and Thurning mill.
One pair of sails was lost in 1911 and then in 1916 severe tailwinding cost the windmill its commercial life, as it was damaged beyond repair. When the sails were finally removed in about 1920, one pair was reinstalled on Carbrooke towermill. The cap, stage and top machinery were removed in about 1940. After commercial milling ceased in 1952, the mill dam continued to supply water for Clermont Hall, half a mile away, but dredging in the 1960s robbed the mill of sufficient water to turn the wheel.
Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust and the Norfolk Windmills Trust took over Little Cressingham Mill for a restoration project in 1981. As the machinery was basically intact, their aim was to bring it back to working order once more and able to provide grinding demonstrations.
Rainwater had caused considerable damage to the floors and woodwork, so in the early 1980s the Trust repaired the floors, doors and windows. They also limewashed the interior. In 1988 the Bramah pumphouse was repaired.
St Andrew, Little Cressingham, Norfolk
The exterior is memorable, for the tower partly fell, taking out the west end of the nave and its aisles and leaving a truncated space wider than it is long. An elegant, characterful interior.
St Andrew, Little Cressingham, Norfolk
The exterior is memorable, for the tower partly fell, taking out the west end of the nave and its aisles and leaving a truncated space wider than it is long. An elegant, characterful interior.
St Andrew, Little Cressingham, Norfolk
The exterior is memorable, for the tower partly fell, taking out the west end of the nave and its aisles and leaving a truncated space wider than it is long. An elegant, characterful interior.
A Battle fought here in 1297, between William Wallace (and Andrew Moray), against the English Forces, led by John De Warenne and Hugh De Cressingham (on behalf of Edward 1 of England.
Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Over 20,000 English fought against a force of 5,000 (others say 10,000) Scots.
The Scots allowed over 5,000 English Troops across the bridge, then "closed it" - maybe Tolls were used.
The scots brought their "spears men" to bear against the weakened enemy, and won.
The "English" retreated as they had been "divided".
Brief summary.
Overall Scotland has since "celebrated" this victory as a "defeat of the English".
Not sure of this...
Spotted out the window of our speeding van.
The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth.
The location of Stirling Bridge at the date of the battle is not known with certainty, but four stone piers have been found underwater just north (56°07′45″N 3°56′12″W) and at an angle to the extant 15th-century bridge, along with man-made stonework on one bank in line with the piers.
arish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Lead, slate and pantile roofs. West tower; aisled nave with south porch; chancel. Mid C15 west tower designed by James Woderofe. Diagonal buttresses and a stair turret to north east. West doorway with dying mouldings, traceried spandrels and a traceried frieze above with letter 'M' alternating with blank shields. Tall 3-light panel-traceried window above. Clock face to second floor with cusped ogee-headed single-light windows to north and south. 2-light bell openings with cusped soufflets. Crenellated and blind-traceried parapet with corner finials. C15 south porch also by James Woderofe. Ashlar faced to south and west. Moulded entrance arch on shafted responds with niche above. Mutilated carving of St. Michael in niche. Flushwork plinth frieze of letter 'M'. Moulded south doorway with a late medieval 2-leaf door. South aisle with five 3-light panel-traceried windows. Similar north aisle with a blocked doorway of two hollow-chamfered orders. Eight fine 2-light clerestorey windows in Decorated style with multi-cusped soufflets. Chancel has eight 2-light windows with simple cusped tracery suggesting a late C13 date. Priest's doorway and blocked leper's window to south. Exceptional 5-light Perpendicular east window with staggered carved transoms, mouchettes and daggers. C13 clasping buttresses surmounted by grouped shafts, resembling late C12 and early C13 pier forms, themselves topped with pinnacles.
INTERIOR. 4-bay arcades of 1885 in Perpendicular style. Western responds, some polygonal bases and the south eastern respond survived the restoration. The south-west respond and bell capital are C13 with grouped shafts and a C14 or C15 heightening re-using the original deeply carved capital. Massive tower arch with mouldings dying into plain jambs. Hollow-chamfered chancel arch on triple shaft responds: the north respond and arch have been renewed. Restored C15 north aisle roof with roll-moulded principals. Hammberbeam nave roof with hammers to alternate principal trusses. Carved hammers and wooden wall post corbels representing angels, prophets and prelates. Wall plates with brattishing. Chancel with four bays of C13 wall arcading consisting of single, practically freestanding, shafts on water holding bases supporting deeply moulded bell capitals and very pointed plain chamfered arches. There is some evidence to suggest that these arcades were at least intended to open into aisles. Surviving rood stair to north which served also as a squint from north aisle. Fine C14 multi-cusped piscina. Jacobean panelling in south aisle and some late-Medieval poppy-head bench ends. Medieval brasses.
Went to Gt Cressingham to get some apples and came back with two interesting shots of a Hare and what it can do with one hind leg, plus foot and I came back with the apples also, of course.
St Michael, Great Cressingham, Norfolk
For many years an absolute fortress, this church now has a friendly keyholder.
27.06.11 Steve, Paula and Lynne.
What a cracking day.
Our Impromptu Picnic, very nice.
Probably one of the most chilled days we had. Bloody hot day!
A iconic Norfolk landscape framed by a fine Ash tree, how very sad it will be if it fall sick and dies.