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St Michael's Church

St Michael's Church

St Michael’s is an impressive, imposing-looking church. It was built by eminent lawyer Bryan Roucliff in 1458 and is full of treasures bestowed by the Roucliff family. Its military looking tower recalls those belligerent times. In the chancel is an elaborate Easter Sepulchre - a canopied wooden chest that played an important role in Easter worship in Medieval parish churches. A monumental brass in the chancel has effigies of a man and woman, believed to be Roucliff and his wife. Soft light streams through the church’s fine leaded windows enhancing the stone interior…

St Nicholas' Chapel

St Nicholas' Chapel

From the tip of its 19th-century spire to its Norman foundations, everything about this town centre church is dazzling. Light floods from its magnificent windows into the interior. The vividly coloured picture panels to the east depict 32 scenes from the life of Jesus…

St Nicholas Church

St Nicholas Church

This Medieval church was built for merchant traders beside Gloucester?s (now vanished) west gate…

St Nicholas' Church

St Nicholas' Church

This tiny Norman church lies down a quiet country lane, close to the Trent. It stands near the site of an old Roman fort they built a military station here by the stone causeway across the river, both now long gone…

St Nicholas' Church

St Nicholas' Church

This delightful stone church has lovely views across rolling countryside…

St Nicholas' Church

St Nicholas' Church

St Nicholas’ is one of two churches in this large straggly village on the edge of the Fens…

St Nicholas' Church

St Nicholas' Church

Delightful, secluded flint church of Norman origins, with a distinctive short round tower; very much in contrast to the soaring towers of neighbouring Salle and Cawston and the flamboyance of Booton, a nearby Trust church. Large clear glass windows (some with Medieval stained glass) illuminate extravagantly carved benches in this church, which has lain almost untouched for over a century. The north aisle was originally the nave and contains traces of 12th-century work…

St Nicholas' Church

St Nicholas' Church

This impressive church, with its rare 13th-century octagonal tower (one of the finest of Norfolk?s five wholly octagonal towers) sits peacefully surrounded by trees and fields close to the River Yare…

St Nicholas' Church

St Nicholas' Church

There have been churches on this site for centuries - the Domesday Book mentions a church here, but the walls and roof of the current building are 13th-century and the windows and chancel screen are 15th. The interior was remodelled in 1703 and its character today comes largely from that period. The church has an early fifteenth century wallpainting of St Christopher partly covered by a Stuart Royal Arms, and a colourful, magnificent 17th-century wallpainting monument to Sir Richard Powlett, with an image of Time and Death on either side. There is also a colourful and intricately carved Jacobean monument to Sir Richard Powlett, who died in 1614 - the monumnet would have once sat in the middle of the wallpainting monument, an early 18th-century reredos, two hatchments and a Royal Arms of 1701 and a pretty bell turret…

St Nicholas' Church

St Nicholas' Church

Brockley church developed from a small Norman building in the 12th-and 13th-centuries. Its fine pinnacled tower was added in the 15th, but it owes much of its present furnishings and atmosphere to a thorough and graceful restoration in the 1820s. The south transept has a spacious family pew with separate entrance and a fireplace, added by the Pigotts whose association with the parish lasted 300 years. There is a Norman font and a stone pulpit of c1480 and a pirate?s gravestone in the churchyard…