Ruined Church And Manor House

TF 92 SE NORTH ELMHAM HOLT ROAD (north east side)

4/46 Ruined Church and 4.12.51 Manor House (formerly listed as Remains of Saxon Cathedral in Old Vicarage Grounds)

GV I

Former church converted into a fortified manor house. Probably built by Bishop Herbert de Losinga (1091-1119) on the site of the Anglo-Saxon Cathedral of Elmham. Converted by Bishop Despencer in late C14. Ferruginous conglomerate with flint core and ashlar dressings. Brick dress- ings to C14 work. Roofless. Western tower with semicircular stair turret, aisleless nave, continuous transept with armpit towers and apse. Evidence for ashlar dressed tower and west transept arches, north and south nave doorways and entrances into armpit towers. C14 work includes a semicircular tower base matching the original stair turret and several masonry partitions with brick dressings. The site is surrounded by C14 earthworks. S.E. Rigold "The Anglian Cathedral of North Elmham, Norfolk" Medieval Archaeology, VI- VII, 1962-3; S.R. Heywood, "The Ruined Church at North Elmham, "Journal of the British Archaeological Association,CXXXV, 1982. The building is also a scheduled Ancient Monument.

Listing NGR: TF9882321609