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English: St Mary's church. Viewed across the old churchyard gate on White Street. See > 853183 for a view in the opposite direction.

St Mary's tower and nave > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853309 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853375 date from the 15th century but the chancel - with its monument to Jonathan Dawson, a 19th century rector, in form of an Easter Sepulchre > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853321. The artist is T. Earp, who also sculpted the decoration around the chancel arch > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853314 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853318 and the stone pulpit - was built in the 1850s by the little known architect, Philip Boyce. The east window is by Hardman & Co (1860s) > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853329. Both north and south aisle east windows display C15 stained glass > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853339 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853356 - this beautiful selection, mainly by the Norwich School, is the most noteworthy feature of St Mary's but there is also one of only 40-odd seven sacrament fonts dating from the 15th century, which has retained some of the original colouration > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853380 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853385. The benches have C15 poppyheads, some with carved figures and faces > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853365 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853369 and a small heart-shaped brass to Robert Alen (d. 1487) is on the chancel floor > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853360. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/martham/martham.htm

In the churchyard, just north of the east wall, the grave of David and Anna Hinderer (1827-1870), Anglican missionaries who spent 17 years in Ibadan, Nigeria, can be found > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853302. Anna Hinderer's account "Seventeen years in the Yoruba country" is available as a free download (from the University of Toronto) > https://archive.org/details/yorubacountry00hinduoft
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Camera location52° 42′ 28″ N, 1° 38′ 01″ E  Heading=270° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
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