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Tivetshall St Mary 14c plain tower... an extraordinarily plain building... the only things of interest are a plain Stuart table and the Arms of George IV... so wrote Monro Cautley of St Mary when he came here on his tour through the churches of Norfolk in the years immediately following the Second World War.
The two Tivetshall churches sit out in the fields on opposite sides of this rambling, intensely agricultural parish. To look at St Mary now, it is hard to conceive that it was still in use until less than half a century ago, the destruction was so complete. If it was not for the tracery of the great east window, you might not even recognise it as a church. Simon Knott, March 2006 |
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