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Church of Our Lady of Consolation and St Stephen

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Church of Our Lady of Consolation and St Stephen

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    1. Little Ouse River Bridge – Forest Picnic Spot loop from Methwold

    46.2km

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    September 13, 2024

    Wonderful and well hidden church in the forest, built in the 1870s, has an amazing interior.

    The church is a rectangular building of four bays with a pitched roof and gabled ends, like a reliquary. There are stepped side buttresses and, at the west end, a large central buttress supporting a circular bell turret. There is a pierced and traceried parapet on the north and south side and bands of stone at the plinth, sill and eaves levels. The glazing is tall and narrow with perpendicular tracery: one window to each bay under segmental arches.

    The entrance is at the west end of the north elevation within a square hood moulding with exaggerated hoodstops. The vertical plank door has applied mouldings forming square panels. Above it is a canopied niche housng a Baroque figure of the Virgin and Child.

    The bell turret rises to form two tiers of blind and pierced tracery panels, eight in total, surmounted by a conical spirelet and a wrought iron cross.

    From the third bay on the south side of the church a single storey passageway connects to the former presbytery. It is four bays long, has narrow rectangular window openings and an external entrance at the west end.

    The side buttresses contain at their bases inset decorative panels of Romanesque design, dating to the late eleventh century and probably brought from Thetford. Some are figurative and are rare examples of pre-1100 sculpture in Norman Norfolk.

    historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1077261?section=official-list-entry

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      Location: Lynford, Breckland District, Norfolk, East Of England, England, United Kingdom

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