File:St Mary's church - nave south window - geograph.org.uk - 1384505.jpg

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St Mary's church - nave south window. One of the nave south windows - it depicts St Mary flanked by St Edmund and St Withburga > <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary%27s_church_-_nave_south_window_(detail)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1384511.jpg" title="File:St Mary's church - nave south window (detail) - geograph.org.uk - 1384511.jpg">1384511</a> and was made in 1910 by stained glass artist Hugh Arnold. St Mary's > <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384466">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384466</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384482">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384482</a> is located on an elevation above the village of Saxlingham Nethergate > <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384404">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384404</a> adjoining the Old Hall on one side and the Old Rectory on the other. Unusually, the C14 square tower has a clock with a sun dial underneath it. The church was extensively restored > <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384485">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384485</a> in the late 19th century, when the large north aisle was added. The south door > <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384477">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384477</a> dates from medieval times and is pierced by two decorative iron grilles which have wooden cover-hatches. The nave roof including the corbels is original C15 and the octagonal font > <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384572">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384572</a> dates from the same time. The most historically interesting feature of St Mary's is the stained glass > <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384492">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384492</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384527">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384527</a> some of which medieval and made by stained glass artists of the Norwich School. Several windows contain 14th century grisaille (monochrome) glass with silver stain > <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384496">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384496</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384536">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384536</a> which produces the bright yellow colour. The four roundels > <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384558">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384558</a> set into one of the chancel south windows are believed to be the earliest figurative glass in Norfolk, made not later than 1250. Some of the old glass of the church is believed to have come from neighbouring St Mary's at the former hamlet of Saxlingham Thorpe - a public footpath leads past the ruin > <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384209">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384209</a> located beside Plummer's Lane, further to the south. St Mary's church is open every day.

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