norfolk churches 1

beast head on north wall of transept, c.1120

the choir of c.1110 was given a new clerestory in the 1360s, and vaulted in the late c15

beast head on north wall of transept, c.1120, with smaller beast in its mouth

the north transept built c.1120, with vault of >1509

beast head on north wall of transept, c.1120, with a smaller beast in its mouth

the norman crossing tower lantern of the 1130s

early c12 capitals in the apse

screen wall behind bishops' throne, intersecting arches of 1120

dating from before 1120, when it was placed outside the new north transept, this effigy was long believed to be bishop losinga; the salomonic columns indicate holiness, and it seems that a dragon has been cut from beneath his feet and gabling from his head, but would such an effigy be moved from before the high altar where losinga was buried in 1119 to be placed outside within a year or so? whosoever this is, it is one of our earliest extant funerary effigies.

south transept, east side. this bay is virtually blind as it covered the stair turret . built c.1120 , the date showing in increased decoration and intersecting arches. with the blind top story this reads as a 4 story composition

south transept from s.e., showing the west wall of c.1120 and lierne vault of 1509 with bosses of the early life of christ

volute tau capitals of c.1120 from the crossing

early c12 norman arch between s.transept and choir aisle filled with early c16 stone tracery

north side of the nave, the norman cathedral being begun in the east in 1096 and reaching the west end c. 1145. the spire was rebuilt in the 1360s and again in the 1460s. the north aisle windows are early c14, the added upper level of gallery windows early c16

the central tower was built in the very early c12, added to a sizable saxon church

big boned chancel arch of the early 1100s

the tower is c.1110, the chancel circa mid c14 , though the tracery is totally renewed and suspect. the snow was genuinely cold.

the central tower arches are early c12, the chancel c14, the benchends early c16