This week’s photograph is another from our recent trip to Norwich. Somehow that day we were running slightly ahead of schedule and we had 20 minutes to kill before Sunday lunch. So in true style we set off to find Bawburgh village church.
St Mary & St Walstan, Bawburgh from the South-East
October 2014
The church of St Mary & St Walstan, Bawburgh is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. It’s now fairly plain and much restored but it’s an old church: it hosted the burial of Walstan in 1016 and the (possibly) Saxon round tower was rebuilt in 1309. However it does still have a rather nice fragment of wall painting, an old rood beam and some delightful fragments of medieval Norwich stained glass.
Late on a sunny Sunday morning this was a rather nice way to while away those spare 20 minutes.
Oh and as usual we had a splendid Sunday lunch just across the river at the King’s Head, Bawburgh.
[As an aside, opposite the pub there is a water mill which was the original site of the manufacture of Colman’s mustard. When I was a graduate student I played cricket with the academic who owned the mill.]