St Mary's Church - Bodney - Norfolk, UK
Posted by: 
Norfolk12
N 52° 33.396 E 000° 41.982
31U E 344060 N 5825433
a tiny church tucked away from the roadside,
Waymark Code: WM5JKV
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/14/2009
Views: 10
This dear little church sits on its own just off of the Mundford to Swaffham road, right beside the forbidden zone of the Battle Training Area. Its near Langford which has been inaccessible to the public for more than half a century now. There is no village, and in terms of population this is one of East Anglia's smallest parishes.
Although the windows have been renewed in the 19th century, the tracery corresponds to earlier drawings. Probably, this is a Norman single cell church in origin.
You step up into an endearingly rural 19th century restoration, There is a range of benches, with renewed ends, but with surviving late-medieval traceried backs, and the font is plain and simple early 15th Century.
The Victorians found the rood loft stairs which the Anglican reformers had blocked, and it is now exposed. Along the nave walls are oil lamp holders.
The scarlet banner, which was used to lead processions in the early years of the 20th Century, is embroidered with three simple primroses. which is a delight.
St Mary would be a forgotten, endangered church if it were not for one simple fact: the parish keep this open every day.
which transforms it from a dying church into one which is full of life and love, a wayside shrine for pilgrims and strangers. a lesson for other, obscure parishes to take note.
Church Name: St Mary's
Church In Use (even only just occassionally): yes
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Date Church Built: Not listed
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2. Church sign (schedule sign with Church name on it &/or gate with Church name, etc).
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