All Saints, Marsham
All Saints, Marsham
All Saints is a Grade I parish church on Church Lane, Marsham, Norfolk, in the Diocese of Norwich.
- Location
- Marsham, Norfolk
- Country
- England
- County
- Norfolk
- City / town
- Marsham
- Address
- Church Lane, Marsham, Norfolk, NR10 5RB
- Postcode
- NR10 5RB
- Built
- 13th century and later; chancel largely 19th-century restoration
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- Norwich
- Parish
- Marsham
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular, with 13th- and 14th-century fabric
- Materials
- Flint with stone dressings and a slate roof
- Opening hours
- May to September open daily 9am to 5pm. October to April, Saturdays and Sundays 10am to 3pm. A virtual tour of the church is available via the church website.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England lists a parish church of the thirteenth century and later, of flint with stone dressings and a slate roof: west tower, north and south aisles, south porch, nave, clerestory, vestry and chancel. The two-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, fourteenth-century two-light windows and a chequered flint parapet. Aisles and clerestory are largely late Perpendicular; the south porch has a tall fourteenth-century doorway around a thirteenth-century church door. The chancel is mainly a nineteenth-century restoration. Inside, five-bay arcades have octagonal piers; the north aisle retains a niche, piscina and rood-loft stair. A fine fifteenth-century single hammerbeam roof has carved angels. The listing records remains of a fifteenth-century screen decorated with sixteen painted saints, and a Seven Sacrament font.
Norfolk Heritage Explorer and local church accounts add a hammerbeam roof with angels, a 1467 Seven Sacrament font, a fifteenth-century rood screen, and rare medieval glass fragments including an elephant and a unicorn. The royal arms of James I stand on the organ loft.