St Margaret's church - C19 memorial

Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 27 Jul 2008

Memorial tablet commemorating John Hamerton, Merchant of Lyng, who died in 1800, and eleven of his children (eight died in infancy). St Margaret's church is set back from The Common and hidden from view by surrounding houses. It can be reached via Port Row, a path that leads past a row of cottages straight to the churchyard gate > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/898990. The church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/899029 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/308693 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/899081 was built in the 13th century; its porch is C15 and has a 17th century brick gable and the main door is still the original one, dating from the 15th century. The chancel was rebuilt in 1912 without altering its foundations; it is noticeably unaligned with the adjoining nave and it is believed that the church once used to have a north aisle and north arcading. The ringing gallery was added in 1991. A C13 Purbeck marble font survives > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/899086 and a glass case on the chancel south wall contains the Lyng Pall, an altar cloth which was made from C15 vestments: two copes and chasuble in red, blue and amber velvet with intricate embroidery, depicting apostles, saints and angels standing on their wheels > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/899067 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/899073. A large figure depicting St Margaret, with a dragon at her feet, was created by Farrar Bell in 1968 and set in the centre light of the east window > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/899060 - this is the only stained glass now in the church. The church is open every day. See also: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lyngmargaret/lyngmargaret.htm

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