Saxlingham Nethergate - Abandoned Church in Norfolk. Church Ruins
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Saxlingham Nethergate - Abandoned Church in Norfolk. Church Ruins

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Saxlingham Thorpe church was abandoned in 1684. In 1687 an application was made for it to be 'ruinated' by which I assume it could be legally robbed of useable materials such as wood, lead and glass for use elsewhere. This may explain the odd-shaped glass at nearby Saxlingham Nethergate church as the parish council's current online history notes that these windows were clearly not originally made for the Nethergate church. They appear to have been recycled from Thorpe to Nethergate.

The parish council website also suggests that the ruined church was once called "The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary" but was also called St Mary the Virgin - as Nethergate's surviving church still is. After the Thorpe church was abandoned it was also known as St Mary Magdalen.

What remains today is an essentially flint rubble core with a little bit of dressed stone and some red brick and tile. I noted high up in the tower some flat red tile suggesting a Roman site may be nearby and this was robbed for material. In the north wall of the chancel there is a blocked Norman window so all appearances are of a late Norman church with some 13th and 14th century additions as I note some medieval brick around the door and window. The nave and chancel are almost the same width and there is no sign of any aisles ever being added.
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