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Norfolk is renowned for its churches. Along the north Norfolk coast there are Saxon roundtower churches, churches related to major figures in history like Admiral Lord Nelson or hidden away chapels.
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St Marys Church |
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This little church in its coastal village deserves fame for its three outstanding features:- its Saxon round tower (pre-Conquest of 1066), its Norman font, and its collection of medieval glass.
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All Saints Church |
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All Saints is in the middle of the village, but has a wide graveyard, so you can take in the fine 15th century nave with its aisles and clerestory. Link isnt official website.
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Thornham,
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All Saints Church |
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This is the most remote and secretive of the Burnhams, hidden away among narrow lanes about two miles south-east of Burnham Market. Link isnt official website.
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Burnham Thorpe,
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All Saints Church |
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All Saints is obviously well-loved and looked after, and there is some wholly excellent late 19th and early 20th century glass, including a super window of the angels appearing to shepherds on the hills above Bethlehem. Link isnt official website.
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Stanhoe,
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All Saints Church |
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Although Burnham Market is the largest of the Burnhams, it is not a historic parish, and in many ways it was an invention of the railway companies, who put one of their stations where three of the Burnhams had grown together. Link isnt official website.
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Burnham Market,
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Chapel of St Edmund |
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What survives is basically the south doorway, apparently Norman. You can make out the outline of the south wall of nave and chancel. It was made thoroughly safe in the late 1980s, and sits in the middle of a little garden. Link isnt official website.
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Hunstanton,
Norfolk,
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Our Lady Star of the Sea Church |
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It is the Catholic Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, the Stella Maris dedication that must have been common to many East Anglian coastal churches in the Middle Ages. Link isnt official website.
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Wells-next-the-Sea,
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Priory Church of St Mary |
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Although it is set opposite Burnham Market primary school, just off the road to Burnham Overy, this ruin is actually in Burnham Norton parish, by virtue of being on the west bank of the River Burn. Link isnt official website.
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Burnham Norton,
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St Andrews Church |
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St Andrew appears to be a normal, if over-restored, 14th century church, but the north side has been comprehensively redeveloped to give it the appearance of some kind of nightmarish institution. Link isnt official website.
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Ringstead,
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St Clements Church |
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There are several ways in which Burnham Overy is the odd one out of the Burnhams. Although it is barely a mile from Burnham Ulph, it feels much more remote, closeted in rolling hills, a thoroughly agricultural setting. Link isnt official website.
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Burnham Overy,
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St Edmunds Church |
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This unassuming 19th century church is unremarkable externally. But to anyone who has ever visited St Edmund it will stick in the memory as what is probably the highest Anglican church in East Anglia. Link isnt official website.
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Hunstanton,
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St Ethelberts Church |
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The modern town of Burnham Market is an amalgam of three historic parishes, Burnhams Sutton, Ulph and Westgate. Link isnt official website.
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Burnham Market,
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St Henry Walpoles Church |
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Unpretentious St Henry sits like a rural fire station on one side of Burnham Markets green, opposite Burnham Westgate church. It is a chapel of ease to the Catholic parish church of Little Walsingham. Link isnt official website.
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Burnham Market,
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St Margarets Church |
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This is the most beautiful of the six surviving medieval Burnham churches, both in terms of its setting and its structure. The position is superb, on a hilltop half a mile north of Burnham Market, half a mile south of the sea. Link isnt official website.
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Burnham Norton,
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St Marys Church |
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St Mary is not without is medieval survivals, including an excellent rood screen depicting the twelve apostles on its panels. Link isnt official website.
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Old Hunstanton,
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St Marys Church |
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Even today, the church of St Mary has an exotic feel to it. You can see at a glance that this was once a vast cruciform church, probably of the 13th century, a rarity in East Anglia. Link isnt official website.
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Heacham,
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St Marys Church |
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The nave seems vast with those great clerestory windows, and the round tower appears to grow out of it, the aisles extending westwards to wrap around it. Link isnt official website.
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Sedgeford,
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St Marys Church |
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Unusually for this part of Norfolk, St Mary is small, but it is as pretty as many of the rest. The prettiness of the tower is enhanced by a rarity, the little medieval lead and wood spire. Link isnt official website.
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Titchwell,
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St Marys Church |
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St Mary is by no means the most interesting or exciting of the churches round about here, but it is well kept, well-used, open and welcoming, so can be forgiven almost anything else. Link isnt official website.
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Brancaster,
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St Marys Church |
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This church has become the main parish church of the Burnhams. During the course of the centuries, the villages of Sutton, Ulph and Westgate grew together, and in the 19th century the amalgamation was given a railway station. Link isnt official website.
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Burnham Market,
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St Marys Church |
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St Mary is a fairly typical East Anglian town church of the mid-15th century, retaining the chancel of its predecessor. Link isnt official website.
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Docking,
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St Marys Church |
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North Creake church is a vast urban Anglo-catholic temple that could as easily be in the centre of Bristol or Norwich. Link isnt official website.
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North Creake,
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St Marys Church |
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St Mary has a tradition going back several decades of always being full of flowers, as if a wedding was about to take place. Link isnt official website.
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South Creake,
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St Marys Church |
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The tower is magnificent, a late 15th century Perpendicular affair of the finest order, but it has nothing to do with the rest of the building whatsoever. A walkway of the 1930s joins it to the body of the church. Link isnt official website.
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Holme-next-to-the-Sea,
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St Nicholas Church |
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St Nicholas is almost entirely Victorian; its medieval predecessor was destroyed in a fire in 1879. Link isnt official website.
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Wells-next-the-Sea,
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St Withburgas Church |
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This massive church would be quite at home in the centre of a large town, but here it sits on a hilltop in a remote corner of the Holkham Hall estate, with only deer and sheep for company. Link isnt official website.
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Holkham,
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Brancaster Staithe and Burnham Deepdale - this
website is a guide to these two lovely villages on the beautiful north Norfolk
coast, a place to explore, create or relax. This guide also covers local
villages and towns including Brancaster,
Titchwell, Thornham, Holme-next-the-Sea, Ringstead, Hunstanton, Heacham,
Sedgeford, Snettisham, Southgate, Ingoldisthorpe, Dersingham, Shernborne, Fring,
Great Bircham, Bircham Newton, Docking, Bircham Tofts, Bagthorpe, Barmer,
Syderstone, Tatterset, Sculthorpe, South Creake, North Creake, Stanhoe, Burnham
Market, Burnham Norton, Burnham Overy Staithe, Burnham Overy Town, Burnham
Thorpe, Holkham, Wells-next-the-Sea, Warham, Stiffkey, Westgate, Binham, Wighton,
Great Walsingham, Little Walsingham, Egmere, North Barsham, West Barsham, East
Barsham, Great Snoring, Little Snoring, Thursford, Kettlestone, Fakenham and
King's Lynn
Churches
in and around Brancaster Staithe and Burnham Deepdale, north Norfolk coast. Norfolk is renowned for its churches. Along the north Norfolk coast there are Saxon roundtower churches, churches related to major figures in history like Admiral Lord Nelson or hidden away chapels.
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