St Mary's church in Great Cressingham - memorial

Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 10 Oct 2010

St Mary's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107771 as we see it today dates mainly from the 15th century. Signs of an earlier building can be discerned in the churchyard just to the east of the chancel. The church houses a number of figure brasses > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107826 and the poppyheads on the benches in the south aisle > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107805 are original, as is the hammerbeam roof in the nave. The baptismal font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107845 dates from the 14th century and has a Jacobean cover. 15th century glass by artists of the Norwich School can be seen in the tracery lights of the south aisle windows, depicting angels > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107837 and bishops > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107839. The matching stained glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107841 in the south aisle east window is 19th century (Victorian) as is the carved stone pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107814 which has been executed in the Early English gothic revival style. St Michael > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2107816 is carved into one of its panels.

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