Imagine having ancient buildings like this just lying around the countryside! In my part of the world, our "heritage" buildings are no older than about 150 years. Your enthusiasm is infectious and your breadth of knowledge admirable.

It's an incredible effort that heritage buildings like this are kept accessible to the public given how vulnerable they are to thieves and vandals, we're literally able to touch medieval artwork.

This is beautiful. Think you so much. I'm legally blind and can't afford to travel. I'm so happy that I can see things like this all around the world from folks like you. I really appreciate it. I love history, especially churches. You are amazing to be able to show things like this to people who can't travel. Wow. Awesome.

Magnificent! That thatch is a surprise, had no idea it was used in church architecture. View from the gallery was a treat, and still smiling at the playfulness of weaving angels and lions into the start of sacramental life. Great video, thanks.

Oh, just marvelous. Fascinating and in-depth and gosh, you sure know a lot! Thank you for teaching us, and for the sacrifices of itchy grasses and insects in summer.

I’m rewatching all the Norfolk videos, I’m enjoying it so much. Also, taking notes and creating a notebook for my visit next year! ❤❤❤❤

Super church, the wonderful atmosphere came across well. Thanks for the tour.

Hello Allain ! You find the most intriguing and interesting places with their unique architecture. This is spectacular and very special. Absolutely amazing … it’s almost as though time has stood still. As always, a truly fascinating and informative video. Thank you for sharing this.

I wish I could snap my fingers and be at St Margaret's, way out in the country on a breezy, bright summer day...

Oh that is so unusual! Thank you so much for showing this and explaining the architecture. I don't think I have ever seen a round tower on a church before. Your knowledge is outstanding. I love your delight when you opened the door :)

STUNNING church! Thank you for sharing it!

Thank you for another wonderfully atmospheric video, I am learning so much from your work.

Lovely church - great to see so much surviving from the Norman architecture. Thanks for making the effort to video it !

It's so good to see these videos. Our churches need all the attention you can bring to them. Your work is a great guide to our history.

Apologies for the noise of the wind in the outside segments of the video, I hope it doesn't spoil the enjoyment too much.

Absolutely love these church tours! Adding this one to my list

What a beautiful building b Barton. And such great camera work, thank you. David

What a beautiful church, and it looks like the graveyard is still in use!

The stalls are fantastic, it’s so lovely to be able to touch history ❤

It is in need of some TLC and it may be small, but what a place to visit, dripping in atmosphere, even as you approach the entrance. Loved the elevation squint, which I missed, so thank you for that. Must be my favourite church in Norfolk and I live here (Wymondham). Thank you and keep them coming.

What a very lovely church!

Very nice

Amazing, thank you! 👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thank you so much - I love this series of videos.

I know this church from the photos of my Friends. Now it is delightful to see the movie. Superb church

So interesting. Thank you for sharing this. I love to visit Norfolk when I travel to UK, so I hope to see this in person on my next trip!

Beautiful 😻 Church. Another great video friend.

Wow how beautiful even from the outside. Well worth a visit. Many churches are now locked in this day and age.

Magnificent! So glad to have found your channel. Thank you very much.

That was fantastic, thank you!

Thank you for this video. I was told to visit this church as (apart from the apsidal) the exterior would likely have been similar to how Mutford would have looked prior to its rebuilding in the 1320s. We even had a decayed and ghastly C15 St. Christopher wall painting. I asked the Diocese if I could lime-wash it and so "restore" the church to its Puritan glory but to no avail :)

That roof is amazing, I love thatch! Its a shame the wall paintings can't be repaired before they disappear completely.

Loved this!!!

Encountering nettles, hold your breath, they don't sting.

Thanks so very much for sharing this lovely video. I'm making a 1:100 scale model of this beautiful church out of paper card. So it's a real treat to see all the details of the exterior and interiors. Really helpful in the making of my model as I have not yet visited this church as I'm not in the UK but far away in Mumbai, India!!!

I would like to know if these beautiful old Churches ⛪️ are still active. Amen 🙏.

Such a treasure to view and very smartly described. You mentioned the building materials for the walls were not of the highest quality but now and then there were some red, flat, tile-looking pieces poking out. Possibly discarded and recycled Roman tiles? Also what was the purpose of the attached tower? That would have been fun to see too. Thanks so much for all your videos.

The round tower has two outlooking windows. Were they stained??? So, there was no access to the tower??? I supose they have to preserve these ol;der building in some way. I was thinking that the sanctuary would have looked beautiful with the Rood screen. The rood screen seems to have been very popular even on up to the 21st century. Interesting how it carried on over into the Anglican church and Henry the 8ths time and beyond - since it is a Roman Catholic custom..

I just wish you would stop and check out a few of the graves. I also with you could notify us if any very notable people are buried at the site.

Beautiful church and thank you for the tour. Presumably the high altar is a modern reconstruction. Nice to see it correctly ordered. Is the aumbry recess still evident?

For the era in which the church was built: what purpose did the round tower serve? A belfry, a castle-like keep of some kind, or? Were round towers characteristic of that area, and is there any link to the round towers of Ireland? Continued thanks for your wonderful videos!

A pity that there was some nasty vandalism lately especially after the newly thatched roof by the Churches Conservation Trust and they kept the church closed for some time for repairs. Hopefully I'll be able to visit it on my next trip to East Anglia and see it for myself as well.

Hi Allan your channel is priceless. I would never see such beautiful churches if not for you. Thank you. Was the font decorated with Tudor roses?

Extraordinary Church, bar-ton…hummm, any relation, hehe.

Forgot to mention that I am making a 1:100 scale model of this church out of paper card and am stuck at finding some details that I am looking for from the inside of the tower block on the upper floors leading to the bells chamber and the hatch to the roof of the tower from inside. Would love to get some details or photos if anyone has been up there sometime in the recent past. Thanks in advance for any information if possible.

Really lovely - thank you. What happens with the Rood stairs now - is the top blocked off?

Wad there a lid on the font? I would have liked to see into it.

I think there is 127 round tower churches in Norfolk

No ' out house '. Just imagine, how many people, urinated against these walls, nearly 900 years. And, the languages used, which these walls were witness to. IF only , they could ' playback ' those words........same people as us, except NO TECHNOLOGY .....just Survival.

Do you get special permission or are these open to public? I'm in USA so would never get to see all these if not for you!

One commenter asked about the defacement of figures and faces; Norfolk was part of the Eastern Association responsible for the administration and victualling of the Cromwell's parliamentarian New Model Army. Within the ranks were many puritans and some later went on to be proto agrarian socialists known as The Diggers. Let's just say they had no admiration for traditional decor in churches. This is a possible explanation given where the church is situated.

The "perky" lions of the font seems based on pleasing domestic animals ! But what happened to the angles faces... Were they defaced on purpose ?

Why were these little Catholic churches not trashed at the time of Henry VIII?

Throughout the Churches purposed with painted images and accent architectural painted accents, I wish these could be professionally conserved and restored, especially the wall paintings ,for example, the altar niches and Saints on rood screens . T'would be a laborious, require restoration accuracy for the time period, if it's at all possible. Now easy task technically with art integrity, reputable, and financially. Unless they are preferred in their historical state. Question: Why was the altar constructed of bricks with what appears to be a marble slab in-between? Quite odd looking. 'Tis an absolute shame the horrible and hell-bent fury to savagely dismantle , desecrate, obliterate and barbarically damage these originally Catholic churches during the anti-iconoclast, convert their interiors in alignment with Protestant reform and demands. Freedom of religious beliefs here in America and other countries has come with a price and sacrifice; bluntly and personally, I am not inclined to forgive Henry VIII for the dissolution of some of England's timeless Monastic Oders and Churches, regardless of reasons or the marches of religion or history. Your presentations behold so much educationally, culturally, faith significantly, historically and brilliantly. Many appreciations and blessings to you and your passion for that which you do so very, very well.

St Christopher. I can't find him, ANYWHERE in the Bible. ! Someones' got this all wrong. Not today, but back ' when '. At what point, in history of Christianity, did these non-biblical characters, arrive ? Anyone.....?. .. among other things, NOT in the Bible.