St Mary at Thrigby near Great Yarmouth: Medieval church featuring a 14th century doorway with carved heads and unusual mullions in the windows.
There are also remains of an oven in the base of the tower where it is believed that the communion bread was baked.
The Doomsday book records a church with 5 acres of land at Thrigby in 1086. The current building is mainly perpendicular in style (1400-1575) although the East window is in the ‘decorated’ style (1300-1375). The porch and font are 14th century.
An early 14th century parish church with some reused Norman stonework. The church has important 18th century wooden tracery in the windows which were restored in the 19th century. Extensive medieval wall paintings were visible in the chancel during the 19th century, but they have since disappeared. In 2003 subsidence in the churchyard revealed the entrance to a brick barrel-vaulted burial chamber. The chamber contained several late 18th and early 19th century coffins, as well as a complete skeleton that was found between the wall and one of the coffins.
St Mary's Church includes some reused Norman material. Apart from this the oldest fabric visible dates from the early 14th century. The main south door is a very good example of Early English style evolving into the Decorated style. The north doorway is also Decorated. The base of the tower appears to be 14th century, with a Perpendicular top added following a bequest in 1448.
An interesting feature of this church are the windows of timber and brick. Pevsner dates these to 1896, but this is more likely to be the date at which they were restored, having been constructed in the early 19th century.
This cache is a picture recognition multicache. The final cache is at N 52 39.ABC E 001 38.DEF
Where you get the missing co-ordinates from identifying the pictures taken in Thrigby Churchyard.
In each of the picture sets A-F one of the pictures is taken at Thrigby. The others have been taken at other various Norfolkl churches. When you have identified the Thrigby picture in each set use the number associated with it to give the missing co-ordinate. When you have identified all 6 missing numbers then it’s off to the final cache which is a short walk away.
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