St Mary's church - war memorial

Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 20 Jun 2008

The war memorial is located beside the footpath that traverses the churchyard of St Mary's, linking Black Street with White Street a short distance further to the east. St Mary's tower and nave > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853277 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853309 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853375 date from the 15th century but the chancel - with its monument to Jonathan Dawson, a 19th century rector, in form of an Easter Sepulchre > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853321. The artist is T. Earp, who also sculpted the decoration around the chancel arch > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853314 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853318 and the stone pulpit - was built in the 1850s by the little known architect, Philip Boyce. The east window is by Hardman & Co (1860s) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853329. Both north and south aisle east windows display C15 stained glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853339 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853356 - this beautiful selection, mainly by the Norwich School, is the most noteworthy feature of St Mary's but there is also one of only 40-odd seven sacrament fonts dating from the 15th century, which has retained some of the original colouration > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853380 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853385. The benches have C15 poppyheads, some with carved figures and faces > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853365 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853369 and a small heart-shaped brass to Robert Alen (d. 1487) is on the chancel floor > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853360. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/martham/martham.htm In the churchyard, just north of the east wall, the grave of David and Anna Hinderer (1827–1870), Anglican missionaries who spent 17 years in Ibadan, Nigeria, can be found > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853302. Anna Hinderer's account "Seventeen years in the Yoruba country" is available as a free download (from the University of Toronto) > http://www.archive.org/details/yorubacountry00hinduoft

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