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Advertising an art exhibition, beside The Street. Kettlestone & Pensthorpe Parish has about 160 residents on the electoral roll, with the majority of parishioners living in Kettlestone village; one of the smaller villages in the district, it covers an area of 480 hectares. The main thoroughfare through the village is The Street; it is lined by 18th and 19th century brick houses and cottages.

Viewed from The Street; the garden seen in the foreground belongs to > Image All Saints' octagonal tower > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850528 with a door in its middle stage dates from the 14th century; it is believed that the tower was higher before the Reformation, and that Sir Thomas de Hauville - the then Lord of the Manor, and Keeper of the King's Hawks - used to watch his charges from its height. The church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850526 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850535 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850540 was extensively restored in the 19th century (by architect Frederick Preedy) and the pulpit as well as the tiny organ > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850537 date from this time. Older survivals are some C15 poppyheads affixed to benches in the north aisle > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850536 and the octagonal C15 font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850542. A plaque on the south nave wall commemorates William Newman, a poor boy raised by the parish, who later made his fortune in London and willed some of it to the poor of the parish on his death > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850546. There are some C18 ledger slabs on the chancel floor > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850539. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kettlestone/kettlestone.htm Kettlestone & Pensthorpe Parish has about 160 residents on the electoral roll, with the majority of parishioners living in Kettlestone village; one of the smaller villages in the district, it covers an area of 480 hectares. The main thoroughfare through the village is The Street; it is lined by 18th and 19th century brick houses and cottages.

The house seen at left is the Old Post Office > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850507 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850508. Kettlestone & Pensthorpe Parish has about 160 residents on the electoral roll, with the majority of parishioners living in Kettlestone village; one of the smaller villages in the district, it covers an area of 480 hectares. The main thoroughfare through the village is The Street; it is lined by 18th and 19th century brick houses and cottages.

All Saints' octagonal tower > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850528 with a door in its middle stage dates from the 14th century; it is believed that the tower was higher before the Reformation, and that Sir Thomas de Hauville - the then Lord of the Manor, and Keeper of the King's Hawks - used to watch his charges from its height. The church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850526 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850535 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850540 was extensively restored in the 19th century (by architect Frederick Preedy) and the pulpit as well as the tiny organ > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850537 date from this time. Older survivals are some C15 poppyheads affixed to benches in the north aisle (seen here) and the octagonal C15 font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850542. A plaque on the south nave wall commemorates William Newman, a poor boy raised by the parish, who later made his fortune in London and willed some of it to the poor of the parish on his death > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850546. There are some C18 ledger slabs on the chancel floor > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850539. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kettlestone/kettlestone.htm

Kettlestone & Pensthorpe Parish has about 160 residents on the electoral roll, with the majority of parishioners living in Kettlestone village; one of the smaller villages in the district, it covers an area of 480 hectares. The main thoroughfare through the village is The Street; it is lined by 18th and 19th century brick houses and cottages.

To John Schuldham (d. 1717). All Saints' octagonal tower > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850528 with a door in its middle stage dates from the 14th century; it is believed that the tower was higher before the Reformation, and that Sir Thomas de Hauville - the then Lord of the Manor, and Keeper of the King's Hawks - used to watch his charges from its height. The church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850526 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850535 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850540 was extensively restored in the 19th century (by architect Frederick Preedy) and the pulpit as well as the tiny organ > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850537 date from this time. Older survivals are some C15 poppyheads affixed to benches in the north aisle > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850536 and the octagonal C15 font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850542. A plaque on the south nave wall commemorates William Newman, a poor boy raised by the parish, who later made his fortune in London and willed some of it to the poor of the parish on his death > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850546. There are some C18 ledger slabs (one seen here) on the chancel floor. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kettlestone/kettlestone.htm