Great Walsingham St. Peter's church
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Great Walsingham St. Peter's church
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 4 Mar 2010
Standing at the back of its large car park, this is a very interesting church. The tower and nave are 14th c. The chancel collapsed in the 16th c. and has never been rebuilt. Seven quatrefoil windows create a clerestory which helps to illuminate the nave. The octagonal font is 15th c. and its cover two centuries later. The Royal Arms are of George I. The real treasures here are the lovely 15th c. benches with traceried backs and curbs to contain straw or rushes, lovely poppy-heads, and various carvings of saints and strange creatures. Some have donors’ or carver’s initials. The wine-glass pulpit is dated 1613. At the front of the nave is a 15th c. poor man’s box, heavily iron-bound with three locks. It seems everything here including the lovely roof is pre-Victorian.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.900338
Longitude
0.880396