Historic Churches in Norfolk

St Peter's church dates to the late Saxon period, and boasts a round west tower, rising to a tapering octagonal belfry stage. The chancel collapsed during a service in 1726 and was never repaired, giving the church and oddly truncated appearance.
The Street, Matlaske, Norfolk, England, NR11 7AQ

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Heritage Highlight: Saxon round tower

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St Mary's church, Moulton, stands in rustic splendour beside an isolated farmyard. The building probably dates to the Norman period; the round tower is certainly of that date.
Moulton, Norfolk, England, NR13 3NW

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Heritage Highlight: Excellent set of 14th century wall paintings

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St Peter's church is well away from the village at Threehammer Common. What we see today is just the chancel of the original 13th-century church, remodelled in 1790. Look for a carved bench end of a winged beast, and a medieval tomb base built into the wall over the west entrance.
Church Road, Neatishead, Norfolk, England, NR12 8BT

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Heritage Highlight: Medieval bench end of a winged beast

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A fascinating 15th-century church in an isolated location, St Peter's is well worth visiting for its collection of excellent funerary monuments, including several Jacobean memorials to members of the Palgrave family.
North Barningham, Norfolk, England, NR11 7LB

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St Mary's is a very large country church dating to the 14th century. Like many medieval churches in this area of Norfolk, it boasts a wonderfully crafted angel roof, with figures of angels holding musical instruments and Instruments of the Passion. Look for the ornate late Victorian font cover set upon a round 12th-century font bowl.
Church Street, North Creake, Norfolk, England, NR21 9JJ

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Heritage Highlight: 15th-century angel roof

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A small site with a big history - English Heritage calls this important complex of historic buildings 'North Elmham Chapel', but that simple name does not do justice to what is really a fascinating group of buildings dating back to the 7th century. You could just as easily call the site a settlement, with the ruins of a Saxon minster and cathedral, and a bishop's palace, or castle.
North Elmham, Norfolk, England

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Northwold goes back long before the Norman invasion - indeed it seems very likely that there was a Saxon church here under the patronage of Ely Abbey. That Saxon church was rebuilt in Norman style about 1229.

High Street, Northwold, East Anglia, Norfolk, England

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Heritage Highlight: 15th century Easter Sepulchre

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Norwich Cathedral is one of the great medieval churches of England, begun in the late 11th century by Herbert de Losinga. The nave features a superb combination of Norman arcades and triforium with later 15th-century vaulting and carved bosses. Beside the church are the medieval cloisters, again featuring wonderful carved and painted bosses.
65 The Close, Norwich, Norfolk, England, NR1 4DH

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Heritage Highlight: 9th century Bishop's seat, 1106 carved medieval bosses

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A superb late Victorian Catholic church designed by George Gilbert Scott for the 15th Duke of Norfolk. Among the finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture in England, with stained glass to rival any in Europe.
Unthank Road, Norwich, Norfolk, England, NR2 2PA

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Heritage Highlight: One of the high points of Victorian Gothic architecture

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An attractive town church dating to the 13th century, though much of the current building is 15th century. Now redundant and used as a Christian hospitality centre. There are interesting fragments of stained glass in the nave and several memorials from the 17th-19th centuries. Open daily.
3 Westlegate, Norwich, Norfolk, England, NR1 3LG

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Heritage Highlight: Fragments of medieval glass in the nave, 14th-century chancel windows

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