Thatched churches
C Cranwich
the tiles for thatch, and last rethatched in 2008. Norfolk’s Barton Bendish St Mary has been unlucky and lucky. Its tower fell in the 18th
c. and
was never replaced, but later it gained a splendid Norman west doorway from the demolished All Saints church. A litle further south, by the busy A134 (and hard
to spot among the trees), Cranwich sits in a circular churchyard, the sign of an early site. Its round tower
Barton Bendish
has Saxon interlacing sculpture in its belfry windows. Just over the border into Suffolk, at Tornham Parva, even the litle late 15th
is the wonderful early 14th
otages yes, but churches? Tere’s about a hundred of them, half of those in Norfolk (see Michael Billet’s English Tatched Churches).
Markby is the only one in Lincolnshire, built c.1540 using stone from the ruined Markby Priory. It was tiled until 1672, when a churchwarden swapped
c. tower is thatched. Inside c. Tornham
retable, probably made for the Priory at Tetford; the other half is in the Musee de Cluny in Paris. In SE Norfolk, there’s Hales, the beau
Markby
ideal of an East Anglian Romanesque church, hardly altered since its building. Enjoy.
Hales 18 ■ newdirections ■ October 2010
Thornham Parva
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