Norfolk Parish Photographs

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Garboldisham:
Garboldisham post mill side and front [5401] 1974-09-04
Garboldisham post mill side and rear [5400] 1974-09-04
Garboldisham post mill from west [5856] 1977-09-10
Last surviving post mill in Norfolk. Built mid 18c. Last used 1917.
Garboldisham St John Baptist church from SE [7302] 1996-04-08
Garboldisham St John Baptist church N porch [7304] 1996-04-08
Porch with inscription to William Pece and others. He was chaplain here c1500.
Garboldisham St John Baptist church int E [7303] 1996-04-08
Garboldisham All Saints church tower ruin [7305] 1996-04-08

Garvestone:
Garvestone St Margaret's church from SE [7135] 1994-06-19
Flushwork decoration to tower parapet.

Gasthorpe:
Gasthorpe St Nicholas' church nave ruin [7300] 1996-04-08
15c or early 16c tower, and south side of nave. Last in regular use c1750.
Gasthorpe St Nicholas' church S wall ruin [7301] 1996-04-08
South wall of chancel.

Gateley:
Gateley St Helen's church tower and porch [5689] 1976-08-23
Gateley St Helen's church screen west side [5687] 1976-08-23
Gateley St Helen's church south screen [5686] 1976-08-23
Depicting St Louis, Henry VI, St Augustine and Master John Schorne.
Gateley St Helen's church nave S bench end [5688] 1976-08-23
One of the 15c benches showing pierced and traceried back.

Gayton:
Gayton St Nicholas' church from SE [7344] 1996-06-16
Mostly early 14c but with Perpendicular chancel. Clerestory with alternating two-light and circular windows.

Gayton Thorpe:
Gayton Thorpe St Mary's church tower [5625] 1976-08-19
Pre-conquest round tower. 12c top with double-light window.
Gayton Thorpe St Mary's church font [5626] 1976-08-19
Seven sacrament font. W and SW panels.

Gaywood:
Gaywood St Faith's church south side [7400] 1996-09-15
Considerably restored 1906-9. West tower 17c gothic.
Gaywood St Faith's church Norman N door [5631] 1976-08-19
Norman doorway incorporated into modern building.
Gaywood St Faith's church churchyard font [7401] 1996-09-15

Geldeston:
Geldeston St Michaels's church porch [5810] 1977-05-28
Round tower and south porch. Lower part of tower probably Norman.
Geldeston St Michaels's church font from SE [5809] 1977-05-28
15c font with armorial shields.

Gillingham:
Gillingham All Saints church tower ruin [4628] 1961-08-03
The living consolidated with St Mary's since 1748, when this church was taken down.
Gillingham St Mary's church from NW [4627] 1961-08-03
The west wall rebuilt, shortening the nave and forming a west porch.
Gillingham St Mary's church from SW [4624] 1961-08-03
Norman central tower.
Gillingham St Mary's church Norman N door [4626] 1961-08-03
Gillingham St Mary's church Norman W door [4625] 1961-08-03

Gimingham:
Gimingham John of Gaunt's Hall [7684] 1999-09-19
Jacobean.
Gimingham site of watermill on Mun Brook [7685] 1999-09-19
1981 building on site of former watermill
Gimingham All Saints church south side [5882] 1977-10-30
Good 15c porch with parvise over, having two windows grouped with what was once a central niche.

Gissing:
Gissing St Mary Virgin church tower [5317] 1972-06-15
Pre-conquest round tower showing splayed circular openings.
Gissing St Mary Virgin church Norman S door [5316] 1972-06-15
Gissing St Mary Virgin church Norman N door [5523] 1976-04-20

Glandford:
Glandford St Martin's church from SE [4468] 1956-08-25
Previous to 1900 this church was in ruins, but in that year it was restored by Sir Alfred Jodrell, Bart., of Bayfield Hall.
Glandford St Martin's church north side [4469] 1956-08-25
On the left, the Shell museum.

Gooderstone:
Gooderstone St George's church from SE [4795] 1964-07-25
Mostly 14c but chancel rather earlier.

Gorleston on Sea:
Gorleston on Sea harbour mouth S pier [4604] 1961-05-25
Wooden south pier at mouth of Yare. Probably constructed by the Dutch engineer Joas Johnson, late 16c.
Gorleston on Sea harbour mouth lighthouse [4767] 1964-05-21
Gorleston on Sea Admiral Duncan's pump [5366] 1974-03-27
On the site of a well sunk by the direction of Admiral Lord Duncan, 1797, in order to provide water for H M vessels during the Napoleonic war.
Gorleston on Sea St Andrew's church from E [5992] 1978-09-08
The two enormously wide aisles extend the length of the church.
Gorleston on Sea St Andrew's church from SE [5991] 1978-09-08
The square west tower is 90 feet high.

Great Bircham:
Gt Bircham tower windmill [7175] 1994-11-25
Gt Bircham St Mary's church from SE [7172] 1994-11-25
Gt Bircham St Mary's church from NW [7173] 1994-11-25
Early 14c tower.

Great Cressingham:
Gt Cressingham Manor House south front [5823] 1977-06-09
Built by the Jenney family. Their crest, a falconer's hand gloved, from which a falcon is rising, appears in the terracotta panels with a monogram of two J's crossed and an E connected by a knot of intricate design. They were probably intended for John Jenney who lived at Cressingham in 1556, and his wife Elizabeth. Sometimes erroneously called a priory because in the 13c the manor belonged to the prior and convent of Norwich.
Gt Cressingham Manor House SE turret [5824] 1977-06-09
Gt Cressingham St Michael's church from SE [7008] 1993-06-05
"Flanking the east end are good late 13c pinnacles." (H Munro Cautley)
Gt Cressingham St Michael's church from SW [7007] 1993-06-05
The tower doorway has a frieze of shields and crowned Ms in foiled circles (for St Michael).

Great Dunham:
Gt Dunham St Andrew's church from SE [7416] 1996-10-13
Gt Dunham St Andrew's church from SW [5479] 1975-09-11
Saxon and Norman.
Gt Dunham St Andrew's preconquest west door [5502] 1976-04-19
Saxon.
Gt Dunham St Andrew's church interior east [5503] 1976-04-19
Gt Dunham St Andrew's church pulpit piscina [7415] 1996-10-13
Jacobean carved oak pulpit and angle piscina with Norman pillar.

Great Ellingham:
Gt Ellingham St James' church from NE [5005] 1965-08-25
Shropham hundred. 14c church.
Gt Ellingham St James' church rood stairs [5004] 1965-08-25
Rood staircase entrance north aisle.
Gt Ellingham St James' church S aisle niche [5003] 1965-08-25
14c niche with traces of colour remaining.
Gt Ellingham St James' church screen north [5002] 1965-08-25
North panels.

Great Fransham:
Gt Fransham All Saints church from SE [7077] 1993-10-16

Great Hautbois:
Gt Hautbois St Theobald's church ruin north [5024] 1965-09-18
Norman round tower. A new church was built nearer the village in 1864. The chancel has been restored as a mortuary chapel.
Gt Hautbois St Theobald's church ruin south [5025] 1965-09-18
Gt Hautbois Holy Trinity church from NW [6781] 1992-05-15
Erected in 1864 in the Early English style. Architect Thomas Jeckyll.

Great Hockham:
Gt Hockham Holy Trinity church from SE [6391] 1986-06-21
Gt Hockham Holy Trinity church from NW [6392] 1986-06-21
The octagonal turret and spirelet replace a tower which fell early in the 18c, otherwise the style is mainly Decorated with a few later insertions.

Great Massingham:
Gt Massingham St Mary's church from NW [7258] 1995-09-30
Early 15c tower.
Gt Massingham St Mary's church S porch [7259] 1995-09-30
Early English porch.

Great Melton:
Gt Melton All Saints church from SE [6760] 1992-03-04
Gt Melton St Mary's church tower ruin [4912] 1965-06-13
Becoming dilapidated, was partly pulled down in 1883 and All Saints church rebuilt on its old foundations.

Great Plumstead:
Gt Plumstead St Michael's church from SE [6566] 1989-07-19
Rebuilt in 1892 after destruction by fire the previous December.

Great Ryburgh:
Gt Ryburgh St Andrew's church from SE [7718] 1999-11-27
14c window in south transept.
Gt Ryburgh St Andrew's church from NE [7717] 1999-11-27
Gt Ryburgh St Andrew's church tower from SW [5690] 1976-08-23
Pre-conquest round tower.

Great Snoring:
Gt Snoring rectory south side [1525] 1937-03-27
Gt Snoring rectory east side [1524] 1937-03-27
Former manor house and later rectory, built by one of the Shelton family in the time of Henry VII.
Gt Snoring rectory from SE [5850] 1977-09-09
East front after removal of plaster facing.
Gt Snoring rectory S gable SE turret [5849] 1977-09-09
Gt Snoring rectory SE angle turret [1523] 1937-03-27
Gt Snoring St Mary's church south side [1526] 1937-03-27
Gt Snoring St Mary's church chancel piscina [3960] 1950-07-28
14c piscina and sedilia south side of chancel, showing remains of canopy and groining.
Gt Snoring St Mary's church S aisle piscina [3962] 1950-07-28
Early 14c piscina and niche at SE angle of south aisle. Window recess sedilia.
Gt Snoring St Mary's church font south side [3961] 1950-07-28
13c Purbeck font.

Great Walsingham:
Gt Walsingham timber framed house [4534] 1959-09-12
Gt Walsingham St Peter's church from SE [4533] 1959-09-12
The whole church is 14c, except for the 15c porch. It has lost its chancel.

Great Witchingham:
Gt Witchingham Lenwade watermill on Wensum [5673] 1976-08-23
Gt Witchingham mill house [7459] 1997-07-06
Early Georgian.
Gt Witchingham watermill on Wensum trib [7458] 1997-07-06
On tributary of Wensum. Sometimes known as Whitwell mill.
Gt Witchingham St Mary's church from SE [6841] 1992-06-15
Gt Witchingham St Mary's church south porch [6840] 1992-06-15
Flushwork frieze at base and above entrance, with crowned M's for Mary. Flushwork in imitation of window at west end of clerestory.

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Text and photographs copyright George Plunkett

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