All Saints Necton is one of those astounding churches which one occasionally finds scattered around Norfolk, which immediately announces itself to the visitor as something extra special.
There has been a church on this site since
the Domesday Survey of 1086, but the only surviving fragment of this Norman building is the north wall of the chancel. Most of the 'ground-floor' of the present structure was constructed around the graceful piers of the nave in the early fourteenth century, starting with St. Catherine's chapel in 1326. The south aisle followed a few years later.Just before 1490, a decision was made to
reconstruct the nave, - a decision which was to lift Necton Church into the 'top-ten' league of Norfolk's seven hundred fine churches. This reconstruction involved raising the height of the nave by almost fourteen feet, inserting the magnificent clerestory of eight closely-set perpendicular windows on each side, and crowning the whole noble structure with a wondrous hammerbeam roof of solid oak and chestnut, carved to display one of the finest collections of bishops, saints and angels in England.The sumptuous Jacobean pulpit, complete
with tester, is particularly fine (1636), as is the carved oak communion table of 1634. In 1867, the west tower was substantially rebuilt, and the south porch was converted to a mortuary chapel. Recently, a splendid new classical pipe-organ was installed in the south aisle, and the old north organ bay has become a very adaptable parish room.Text and photography reproduced with the kind permission of Geoff H.Robinson
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| Interior of All Saints Church Photos by Carol Nash | The Roof |
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Click below for the All Saints Website, scroll down to find the 'All Saints Church website' link.
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