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Martham First School
This was Martham's village school (Victorian?) and became Martham First School when the new Flegg Middle School was built nearby.
Image: © Paul Shreeve
Taken: 17 Feb 2008
0.03 miles
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St Mary's church - churchyard
St Mary's is surrounded by a vast churchyard - this is the northwestern section.
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
Image: © Evelyn Simak
Taken: 20 Jun 2008
0.05 miles
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St Mary's church - churchyard
St Mary's is surrounded by a vast churchyard; in the northeastern section the grass has as yet to be cut.
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
Image: © Evelyn Simak
Taken: 20 Jun 2008
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St Mary's church - headstone
In the churchyard surrounding St Mary's, 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. 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
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
Image: © Evelyn Simak
Taken: 20 Jun 2008
0.06 miles
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St Mary's church - C15 Norwich School stained glass
In south aisle east window - this scene depicts St Michael weighing souls: the innocent souls can be seen in the pan at left whilst the devils seen at right attempt to counterbalance and outweigh them.
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 - 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
Image: © Evelyn Simak
Taken: 20 Jun 2008
0.06 miles
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St Mary, Martham: churchyard
Note the ubiquitous jogger
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 1 Aug 2016
0.06 miles
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St Mary's church - chancel arch detail
A barn owl and a squirrel surrounded by flowers (sculpted by T Earp).
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 (see also > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853314) 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
Image: © Evelyn Simak
Taken: 9 Jul 2007
0.07 miles
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St Mary, Martham, Norfolk - Hammerbeam roof
Image: © John Salmon
Taken: 10 Aug 2004
0.07 miles
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Martham Church
View towards Martham Church from public footpath leading from Martham Ferry to West Somerton.
Image: © Helen Renton
Taken: 24 Feb 2012
0.07 miles
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St Mary's church - poppyhead
Depicting a man standing on strawberries.
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 - see also > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853365 - 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
Image: © Evelyn Simak
Taken: 17 Jun 2007
0.07 miles