Walcott – All Saints Church

Located near to the Norfolk coast, Walcott Church stands rather adrift in the landscape, although it’s visible for some distance. The construction dates for the building are known with some precision, the nave was constructed in 1427, the tower in 1453 and the porch in 1467. It’s a sizeable building for the size of the settlement, an optimistic construction for what transpired to be the last wave of new churches before the Reformation.

This is another church that was updated and modernised by Richard Phipson in the nineteenth century, although internally it did need some re-ordering.

The listed building record doesn’t give a date to this door in the tower, but it appears (to my very untrained eye) older than the fifteenth century. Given that the font inside is thirteenth-century, perhaps this came from an earlier church on the same site.

The ironwork on the porch door dates to the mid-nineteenth century and was made and installed by Fitt and Parke of Stalham. Unfortunately, the church was closed to the public during my visit.