Bagthorpe Church: A Hidden Gem in Norfolk

Introduction

Explore St Mary’s Church in Bagthorpe through this Norfolk photography collection. The church’s flint and stonework, bellcote and rural setting offer a quiet contrast to the county’s larger landmarks.

Architectural Design

The building’s Gothic Revival design brings together a nave, chancel and distinctive bellcote. The photographs show its architectural details alongside the surrounding countryside.

Historical Background

The church stands on a site with a longer history, with an older font retained inside the later building. Look through the collection for views of its character and setting.

Status and Conservation

If you plan to visit, check current opening and access information with the organisation responsible for the church before travelling.

Visiting Bagthorpe Church

Browse the gallery to explore this part of rural Norfolk. For a print enquiry, tell us which photograph you like and your preferred size or finish.

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Pudding Hall Church

Pudding Norton is one mile south of Fakenham. All that remains there today is the tower of St Margaret’s church and Pudding Norton Hall as the medieval village was cleared to make way for grazing in the late 16th and early 17th century.

The abandoned village is on a slope which spreads towards a stream that flows into the River Wensum.

In 1329 this village had only 15 households paying the Lay Subsidy tax. By 1602 the church had been decaying for a long time and in 1845 there were records of a population of 25 living in Pudding Norton.

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Langham church St Mary’s Norfolk

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Norfolk Drone Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk

Explore Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk through this collection of photographs. The historic building and its grounds provide a distinctive subject, with wider views showing how the architecture sits within the landscape. Browse the gallery and contact us about a particular image or print. For visitor opening times and access, check the property’s current information before travelling.

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St Michael the Archangel in Booton, Norfolk

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Norfolk Drones Oil Paintings

Explore Norfolk Drone’s collection of images with an oil-painting effect. Choose a favourite view and ask about available sizes, framing and finishes before ordering.

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Terrington St Clements

Terrington St Clements is a village in west Norfolk, west of King’s Lynn and south of the Wash. This gallery shows its buildings and surrounding landscape. Browse the photographs and use the print link to explore options for your favourite image.

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Castle Rising

Castle Rising Norfolk Castle Rising is known for the castle that rises above the village near King’s Lynn. Explore the photographs below for views of this Norfolk landmark and its surroundings, then ask about a print or a photography commission of your own.

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Route A149

The Plan

We followed the A149 from Hunstanton, photographing the route from the ground and the air over several months. The project brings together coastal views and the changing Norfolk landscape.

The Equipment

We used a DJI Mini 2 for the aerial photographs, planning the shots around the location and people nearby.

Canon M-50

The Canon M50 captured the ground-level photographs, including landscapes, flowers and changing light along the route.

So What Happened You Ask?

Starting in Hunstanton, we explored the route with camera equipment, company and a dog. Browse the resulting photographs and enquire about prints of your favourite views.

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Stanhoe Norfolk

Stanhoe village photography

Explore Stanhoe in north-west Norfolk through photographs of its pond, village buildings and surrounding countryside. The collection brings together wider views and smaller details that give the village its character.

The duck pond is a central feature, while flint, brick and tiled buildings connect the village to the wider Norfolk landscape. Browse the gallery above to find a view you would enjoy as a print.

A village shaped by its rural setting

Fields and farm buildings surround Stanhoe, with All Saints Church providing another subject for photography. For local information, visit the Stanhoe village website.

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Stained Glass at All Saints Church Stanhoe

All Saints, Stanhoe is a fine 13th century church with an off-set square tower which serves as a south porch. The build-programme began around 1280, and was completed about fifty years later.

The north and south arcades are early C14, probably around 1320, but the chancel had a different builder — its windows have fine shafting inside, and the fine stepped sedilia have ‘ogee’ canopies.

The choir-stalls, altar-rails, pulpit and lectern are all of exceptional quality — installed in 1853 as a memorial to Revd. Daniel Everard who was Rector here for sixty years. The brass candelabra hanging from the Chancel roof, has twelve arms radiating from a double-headed eagle, and is a magnificent example — probably Dutch.

There are many fine monuments to the Hoste family ( from Barwick House ). Sir William Hoste was a famous sea-captain in Nelson’s time, and he also has memorials in St. Margaret’s, Lynn, & St. Pauls Cathedral, London. The Chancel North window commemorates Lt. George Seymour, who died in India in 1887.

In view of the elegance and quality of the chancel furnishings, it comes as no surprise to find a collection of stained glass windows by three of the finest Victorian Glaziers in England (in addition to the nine panels of ancient heraldic glass, re-set in the North Aisle.)

The stained-glass inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was largely produced by the workshops of William Morris & Co, whose design team claimed a pedigree which included Holman Hunt, Ford Madox-Brown and Burne-Jones — all of whose glass designs may be seen in the neighbouring church of Sculthorpe.

As the movement evolved, it divided into two main ‘streams’, one of which — headed by Charles Kempe & James Powell — stayed with the more formal figures and poses of the High Victorian Gothic, while the other group retained the sentimental dream-like quality of the Pre-Raphaelites — to create an ‘Aesthetic’ school of stained glass, led by Ward & Hughes, and the Morris / Burne-Jones duo — very capable workshops which sent much fine glass to Norfolk.

All Saints, Stanhoe, has splendid examples of almost all of the ‘spear¬head’ firms. It was Charles Kempe who crafted the very complex ‘Tree¬of-Jesse’ East window, which shows Christ in Glory at the top, and no fewer than twenty-two saints and prophets below, illustrating the familiar text ‘I am the vine, Ye are the branches’.

Kempe also installed the colourful ‘Resurrection’ window at the East end of the South Aisle, and may have been responsible for the two pairs of musical angels to the right, although these are un-signed.
The North chancel window is perhaps the most captivating, with its life¬like pictorial epic ‘Visitation of the Shepherds’ typical of the impeccable crafstmanship and glowing colours of Ward & Hughes, (cover photo).

All the Pre-Raphaelite artists were captivated by William Morris’s beautiful wife Janey — and their daughter May — and used both as their models, so their solemn faces and long red hair found their way into countless paintings and stained windows of the day. Look at the ‘Shepherds’ window at Stanhoe, and sure enough, there is May Morris (tall angel, right) bearing a golden mace; and don’t miss the exquisite draughtsmanship of her left hand, holding the mace!

Ward & Hughes other window, opposite the organ, could hardly be more different, imitating the well-known style of Powell medallions. James Powell (at Whitefriars Glassworks) produced many famous windows showing scenes from the Life of Christ in oval or lozenge-shaped panels, and this look-alike designed by Henry Hughes is one of his best. The other south chancel window, with two square panels of angels, is a genuine Powell, designed by Pre-Raphaelite Henry Holiday.

© 2005 Geoff H. Robinson, Black Five Publications, Syderstone

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