Herringswell St Ethelbert?s church

Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 28 Jul 2007

You would never come this way if you were not visiting the church. It is well off the beaten track. Just inside the gate there is a rather impressive sculpted monument to Herbert Davis (1899). The tower is unusual in that the buttresses are also utilised as stair turrets to the upper stages. The east wall of the tower is supported on columns, arches and flying buttresses internally, easily visible at the west end of the nave. The tower is older by far than the main body of the church as the original was burned down in 1869, but some of the early Norman walls remain: the engaged columns at the eastern corners of what was the chancel, and now is the nave, for example. The furnishings are attractive but of no real age or interest to the architect or historian.

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