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Beachamwell, ?, north Norfolk, UK.

No gargoyles, but a church worth seeing. The flint work and octagonal tower are unusual and pretty, the tower is decorated, very very unusually the church has a thatched roof, and it's been maintained with recent building works that are quite sympathetic. It's obviously well looked after (mind you English Heritage have an interest, so there's money involved). It has a good feel to it. In fact I liked the architecture so much that even though it's gargoyle-less, I'm making an exception and including it. STOP PRESS @oct01 (a few months after I heard it, sorry): Evidently not so much money involved. The church is in a bit of a financial crisis for repair works, I think to the tower. It's worth giving some money to save it, I've never seen anything like this one. I went and lost the article which has the contact name, but I guess first try "ROUND TOWER CHURCHES, Crabbe Hall Burnham Market, Kings Lynn, PE31 8EN" Photos May 2001

Beachamwell church from the front, note thatched roof   Beachamwell church from the right/rear, thatched on this side too   Beachamwell church tower from the front   Beachamwell church tower from the right/rear   Beachamwell details of flintwork on tower   Go to top of pageTop  Go to index list of gargoyle buildingsIndex  

Great Cressingham, ?, Norfolk, UK.

Just a classic English church with 2 rather dull but well preserved stubby heads, pretty but not that special until you see the flintwork. Some of it is very good - shaped to fit the form and tightly packed using reasonably good or very good black flint. There are manorial crests and emblems all over the place. There are also a couple of heads hidden away inside the side porch, one obviously female in medieval-ish head gear, one hard to make out. The windows on the tower are all different shapes too. Photos 27 May 2001 (28-200mm & 600mmlens)

Great Cressingham Church from the side   Left hand gargoyle on tower   Right hand gargoyle on tower  

Here inside the porch, looking back out, tucked away up high in each corner are the heads:

Porch showing position of heads   The woman's head inside the side porch   The other (man's?) head inside the side porch  

Ok, that's the gargoyles done, here's the flintwork:

Great Cressingham front door showing crests   Flint worked buttress to right side of front door   Intricate flint work on left hand side outside side porch   Intricate flint work on right hand side outside side porch   Detail of one of the wonderful flint work crests things   Just a marvellous flint work cottage in Great Cressingham  

And finally, here's some odd bits of church (don't bother clicking, this is all you get):

A cross on the church roof with a starling on it, how sweet   Top window LH tower   Upper Middle window LH tower   Lower Middle window LH tower   Bottom window LH tower   Go to top of pageTop  Go to index list of gargoyle buildingsIndex  

Little Walsingham, St. ?, north Norfolk, UK

These are rather uninspiring ones on the flanks of the tower of the church that lies on a small hillock at the far end of the village from the shrine and the other excitements in Little Walsingham. I'll have to go back and take these again with a proper camera in something other than fading light. Photos Jan 2001 (70mm lens)

Little Walsingham church tower. 70mm lens   Little Walsingham top of tower. 70mm lens   Little Walsingham two gargoyles right hand side. 70mm lens   Go to top of pageTop  Go to index list of gargoyle buildingsIndex  

Roydon, All Saints, west Norfolk, UK.

A rough pipe for guttering on each flank of the tower, the right hand side one is supported by a block of stone, the left seems to have fallen off. It's hard to see (using the lens I had) whether the remaining stone is carved or not, it might have a shallow surface carving of a face on it (or might not). Pretty little church with small windows and surprisingly ornate russet stone arch and columns for the entrance. Photos Feb 2001 (28-200mm lens)

Roydon church   Roydon, block of stone supporting pipe on tower at right. 200mm lens   Roydon, plain pipe on tower at left. 200mm lens   Go to top of pageTop  Go to index list of gargoyle buildingsIndex  

Titchwell village, St Mary the Virgin, north Norfolk, UK.

Lovely little Saxon round tower church with a good friendly feel to it. Also very handy if you like bird watching since the RSPB's excellent wetlands reserve at Titchwell is very close by. One of the pictures shows the church from one of the bird hides on the reserve. One of only 175 round tower churches left out of the 1000 or so that were originally built in East Anglia. The tower, like others, is made from flint and lime mortar and round due to the dearth of cut stone available in East Anglia in those times. The belfry was added probably in Norman times using cut stone shipped in. No carved gargoyles, just a couple of old lead lined wooden channels, but that's plumbing for you out in the wilds. Photos Nov/Dec? 2001 (28-200mm lens)

Titchwell church from RSPB bird reserve   Titchwell church from the rear looking towards the marsh and sea   A wooden gutter   Another wooden gutter   Go to top of pageTop  Go to index list of gargoyle buildingsIndex  

Weeting, St Mary's, south Norfolk, UK.

Another lovely round tower church which somehow looks very accurately round. Near Weeting castle, which is essentially a huge pile of flint walls in the centuries long process of falling down, but still with arches and bounded by a moat. Photos taken on a foul dark and miserable day where I re-discovered the rather sad joy of Thermos flasks - no bad thing when it's been cold and drizzling for hours, and you've just climbed out of the pre-historic flint mines of Grimes Graves. No carved gargoyles, just a wooden channel, but again it's plumbing that works. Photos Nov 2001 (35-70mm happy snapper lens?)

Weeting Church, round towered   Weeting's superbly round tower   Weeting church's dull but practical drainage channel   Go to top of pageTop  Go to index list of gargoyle buildingsIndex  
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