St Margaret's church - east window (detail)

Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 21 Feb 2010

After Hopton's St Margaret's church burnt down in 1865 > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1717781 a new church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1718921 was built in 1866 a short distance to the west of the ruin. The church's dedication is also to St Margaret. The architect was Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812-73), who also partially rebuilt the church of St John in Rushford and remodelled St Mary's church in Brettenham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1698910. St Margaret's church in Hopton is Teulon's major work in Norfolk. The church is of a cruciform design with the tower being situated in the centre of the building. The north transept houses the pipe organ with its elaborately decorated organ case > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1718982. Opposite it, in the south transept, is the Julian chapel > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1718971 which is dedicated to Mother Julian of Norwich (1342-ca.1416). The east window was designed by Edward Burne-Jones and made by William Morris in memory of Charles Orde (d 1880). Two other chancel windows - they depict Hope and Charity > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1718963 and Humility and Faith - are also by Burne-Jones/Morris. Fragments from the original memorial window, which was destroyed by bombs during the war, can be seen reset in some of the other windows > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1718989. The church furniture dates from the 1860s.

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