All Saints church Hemblington

For hundreds of years this small Grade 1 listed medieval church has served its community as a place of worship, celebration and remembrance. Most of what can now be seen is 14thC and 15thC although the round tower is significantly older.
Upheavals of the Reformation and during the time of Cromwell have both damaged & preserved treasures in this place.

It has a nationally important wall painting of St Christopher as it is the most complete telling of the life of the saint in Britain. It was fully revealed and restored in 1937.

It also has a regionally important octagonal font decorated with 16 saints and martyrs.

There are steps that would have led to the top of the rood screen, no longer in place.

On either side of the Nave are niches which would have contained statues.

Behind the Georgian pulpit there is a piscina for washing utensils after a service. A second piscina can be seen to the right of the altar / communion table.

In the roof in the Nave near to the Chancel can be seen medieval decoration on the wooden beams.

There are some poppy headed pew ends and remains of animal carvings found on two elbow pieces.

There is a file in the church detailing the graves in the churchyard.

This church is off the beaten track but well worth the effort to find it with its treasures and very special and peaceful atmosphere.