The following is taken from www.norfolkchurches.co.uk
Although considerably restored and renewed, the building is essentially a typical 15th Century great East Anglian church, with an earlier tower as is often the case. The porch is spectacular, the very apotheosis of devotional craftsmanship on the eve of the Reformation. If the tower had been rebuilt it would no doubt have been much higher.
To the west of the church is the fine school built in 1812 and extended in 1842 for the Parish, an unusual survival. To the north of it are a number of most interesting headstones, perhaps the most memorable of which is to Basil Charles Lines, a private in the 4th battalion of the Norfolk Regiment. The deep cut relief at the top of the headstone depicts an enlaurelled rifle and cap, bearing the Norfolk Regiments badge. Basil Lines lied about his age to enlist, but died of pneumonia before he could be sent abroad. He was just 17 years old.
The most famous feature is probably the screen, of which only the dado survives, but it is intricately and beautifully carved, and, as Pevsner observed, very unusual. Restored sympathetically in red, green and cream, it features in its spandrels a cavalcade of mysterious beasts and people, of which the monk playing pipes and the dog catching a rabbit are among the most striking.
Thanks must go to Mr Wilson (one of the church wardens here) for his permission to place this cache.
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