English Heritage sites near Felmingham Parish
BACONSTHORPE CASTLE
10 miles from Felmingham Parish
Visit the extensive ruins of Baconsthorpe Castle, a moated and fortified 15th century manor house, that are a testament to the rise and fall of a prominent Norfolk family, the Heydons.
COW TOWER, NORWICH
12 miles from Felmingham Parish
One of the earliest purpose-built artillery blockhouses in England, this brick tower was built in c.1398-9 to command a strategic point in Norwich’s city defence.
BLAKENEY GUILDHALL
16 miles from Felmingham Parish
The remains of the house of a prosperous Blakeney merchant, with a fine 15th century brick-vaulted undercroft. Later the guildhall of Blakeney’s guild of fish merchants.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
16 miles from Felmingham Parish
A place with an unusual story, told by graphic panels. The small Norman chapel here stood on the site of an earlier timber church, probably the Saxon cathedral of East Anglia.
BINHAM MARKET CROSS
17 miles from Felmingham Parish
The tall shaft of a 15th century cross, on the site of an annual fair held from the 1100s until the 1950s.
BINHAM PRIORY
18 miles from Felmingham Parish
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.
Churches in Felmingham Parish
Felmingham: St Andrew
Church Road
Felmingham
Norwich
01692 773886
Felmingham is part of the United Benefice of King's Beck, together with the villages of Banningham, Colby, Skeyton, Sloley, Suffield, Swanton Abbott and Tuttington. Sung Eucharist is held at 10 am in rotation around the villages.
St Andrew's church dates from 1754 when the church was rebuilt after a fire. A substantial bequest in the 1990s enabled a number of improvements and addiions to be made. In 1997, the bells were restored and three new ones were cast to create a "ring" of 9. The beautifully carved West Screen was built usng local woodcarver Gerald Adams. It incorporates nursery rhyme themes as well as references to the biblical stories of St. Andrew. A ringing gallery was created at the same time.
No churches found in Felmingham Parish