---
title: "St Martin, Fincham"
description: "Located in Fincham, Norfolk. Built Mid C15; restored 1847 and 1870. Diocese of Ely. Grade I. Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Norfolk","Fincham","Grade I","Perpendicular"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-martin-fincham"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:41:31.687Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T16:00:36.094Z"
location: "Fincham, Norfolk"
country: "England"
county: "Norfolk"
town: "Fincham"
address: "High Street, Fincham, Norfolk, PE33 9EJ"
postcode: "PE33 9EJ"
built: "Mid C15; restored 1847 and 1870"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Martin"]
diocese: "Ely"
grade: "I"
style: "Perpendicular"
materials: "Flint and carstone with ashlar dressings; leaded roofs"
openingHours: "Open daily 9.30 to 4pm."
parish: "Fincham"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1077822"
gridReference: "TF 688 064"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas"
---

# St Martin, Fincham

St Martin’s is a Grade I parish church on the High Street, Fincham, Norfolk, in the Diocese of Ely, a mid-fifteenth-century Perpendicular village church.

## Overview

Historic England records a mid-fifteenth-century parish church restored in 1847 and 1870. The fabric is flint and carstone with ashlar dressings and leaded roofs. The plan comprises a west tower, nave, aisles and chancel. The three-stage tower has angle buttresses to the belfry, a plinth with pointed trefoil arcading, an arched west door under a nineteenth-century square surround, and a four-light west window. The battlemented parapet has trefoil arcading. The gabled south porch has angle buttresses and a carved parapet inscribed with the date of a later restoration. The south aisle has stepped flushwork buttresses rising through a flushwork crenellated parapet to crocketed pinnacles, and three-light panel-traceried windows. Clerestory windows are of three lights with supermullions. A two-storey vestry of about 1500 obscures the north chancel.

Parish notes state that the church was rebuilt in the mid-fifteenth century, thought to be on the walls of an earlier building, and that the Fincham family were the principal donors. Flushwork on the buttresses includes an M for Mary, IHS and the Fincham arms. Wikipedia records a famous font on four legs depicting Gospel scenes, and that a second village church, St Michael, was demolished in the mid-nineteenth century.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1077822](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1077822)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of St Martin](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101077822-church-of-st-martin-fincham)