---
title: "All Saints, Hemblington"
description: "Located in Hemblington, Norfolk. Built C12 round tower; remainder largely early C14. Diocese of Norwich. Grade I. Saxo-Norman and Decorated style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Norfolk","Hemblington","Grade I","Round Tower","Decorated"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/all-saints-hemblington"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:48:58.977Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T18:59:19.473Z"
location: "Hemblington, Norfolk"
country: "England"
county: "Norfolk"
town: "Hemblington"
address: "Church Lane, Hemblington, Norfolk, NR13 4EF"
postcode: "NR13 4EF"
built: "C12 round tower; remainder largely early C14"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["All Saints"]
diocese: "Norwich"
grade: "I"
style: "Saxo-Norman and Decorated"
materials: "Flint with limestone and brick dressings; smut pantile roofs"
website: "http://www.hemblingtonchurch.org.uk/"
openingHours: "Visitors are warmly encouraged to visit, as the church is open every day 10am to 5pm."
parish: "Hemblington All Saints"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1051490"
gridReference: "TG 353 115"
accessNotes: "Level access throughout. Accessible toilets in church"
---

# All Saints, Hemblington

All Saints is a Grade I parish church on Church Lane, Hemblington, Norfolk, in the Diocese of Norwich.

## Overview

Historic England records a twelfth-century west tower and fabric otherwise largely of the early fourteenth century. The walls are flint with limestone and brick dressings and some reset worked stone; roofs are smut pantile, with a conical plain-tiled cap to the round tower. The plan is round west tower, nave, chancel and south porch. The porch has an early sixteenth-century moulded brick entrance arch and flushwork crosses. Chancel south windows of about 1300 have Y-tracery.

There is no chancel arch: a massive timber beam carries the nave’s studwork east gable, flanked by figure niches that retain some original colour. Open rood stairs survive at the north-east of the nave. On the north nave wall is a large and very fine fourteenth-century mural of the life of St Christopher. The fifteenth-century nave roof has arch-braced principals; some common rafters keep painted decoration. The octagonal fifteenth-century font has figure carving around bowl and stem. The Norfolk Heritage Explorer notes wall paintings discovered in 1932.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1051490](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1051490)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of All Saints](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101051490-church-of-all-saints-hemblington)
- [All Saints, Hemblington](http://www.hemblingtonchurch.org.uk/)