Norfolk Churches: my Top Hundred

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          There are about eight hundred churches of any significance in Norfolk, including all of those built before about 1840, and so it is a difficult thing to reduce them to a Top Hundred. Over the last twenty years or so I have visited every one of those churches, in most cases several times. There is so much to take into account - the architecture, the setting, the furnishings, the atmosphere, the historical survivals, and most of all the 'wow-factor'. As of November 2024 these are my Top Hundred Norfolk churches in order, but like all things this is subject to change, for outside the top twenty the margins of difference are often small.

Two caveats! I've erred on the side of caution, so churches that I haven't visited for a long time have a lower position than they probably deserve (the two Kings Lynn churches, for example). Also, there is the danger of damning someone's favourite church with faint praise. All I can say is that this is how they seemed to me, and how I thought about them when I sat down to do this.

           
 
                       
   


1. Salle

2. Walpole St Peter

3. Thompson

4. South Creake

5. Wymondham

6. Cley-next-the-Sea

7. Barton Turf

8. Ranworth

9. Binham

10. Cawston

11. East Barsham

12. Little Witchingham

13. Edingthorpe

14. Hales

15. East Harling

16. Tilney All Saints

17. Irstead

18. Shelton

19. Ludham

20. Wiggenhall St Mary the Virgin

21. Burnham Norton

22. Litcham

23. Marsham

24. Wiggenhall St Germans

25. Worstead

26. Newton-by-Castle Acre

27. Frenze

28. North Barningham

29. Potter Heigham

30. West Walton

31. Kings Lynn St Nicholas

32. North Elmham

33. Great Walsingham

34. Tivetshall St Margaret

35. Suffield

36. North Walsham

37. Dereham

38. Kings Lynn St Margaret

39. Upper Sheringham

40. Tunstead

41. Salthouse

42. Blakeney

43. West Tofts

44. Norwich St Peter Mancroft

45. Trunch

46. Sandringham

47. Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalene

48. Little Walsingham

49. Crostwight

50. Upwell

51. Gateley

52. East Lexham

53. Elsing

54. Denton

55. Booton

56. Castle Acre

57. Weston Longueville

58. Great Yarmouth St Nicholas

59. Burgh-next-Aylsham

60. Hempstead St Andrew

61. Morston

62. Heydon

63. Wellingham

64. Attleborough

65. Beeston-next-Mileham

66. Horsey

67. Redenhall

68. Haddiscoe

69. Wighton

70. Erpingham

71. Wickhampton

72. Blofield

73. Norwich St George Colegate

74. Ringland

75. Loddon

76. Horsham St Faith

77. Great Ryburgh

78. South Lopham

79. Burnham Deepdale

80. Bawburgh

81. Little Snoring

82. Warham St Mary Magdalene

83. Tuttington

84. Calthorpe

85. Houghton-on-the-Hill

86. Aylsham

87. Burnham Overy

88. Fritton St Catherine

89. Cromer

90. Thorpe Market

91. Snettisham

92. West Dereham

93. Upton

94. Catfield

95. Hilborough

96. Hardley

97. Gunton

98. Pulham St Mary

99. Narborough

100. Colby

   
 
               
                 

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