Great Moulton – St Michael and All Angels Church

The church of St. Michael and All Angels in the village of Great Moulton and the bulk of the building dates from the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. It’s reached by going down a relatively narrow lane and the church is set back some way from the road.

The tower is neat, but unexceptional, and it was reconstructed in 1887.

Although the core of the walls is older the Victorians faffed about here quite a lot with their restoration work, led by the architect Herbert Green and constructed by Grimwood & Bullen.

This does though mean that the Victorian floor plan gives some indication about the interior of the building, which was reconfigured to seat 76 in the nave, 44 in the north aisle and 17 in the chancel.

A bricked up early medieval window on the side of the nave and it can also be seen where the walls have been raised during a later stage of building work.

A complex array of windows on the chancel, and this section of the church predates the nave.

The chancel end of the church.

Unfortunately, this was another locked church. The doorway is medieval and the porch itself is from the fifteenth century.

A board inside the porch with the names of past rectors and vicars.

This is a repurposed tomb from the fourteenth century, likely moved from inside the church. Norfolk Heritage mention that this was investigated and taken apart in 1999, but there is no burial beneath the tomb as there was natural clay. All slightly puzzling. Such is my poor knowledge of historic religious structures that I merrily walked by this without noticing it, it was only the listed building record that explained that it was there.

It’s a rather attractive and spacious graveyard with daffodils abound.

I took this photo from the churchyard and for anyone who is so minded to click on the above photo to enlarge it will see the wires of the London to Norwich mainline.