Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church located on Litcham Road in Great Dunham. It dates from the late 15th century and later, constructed from partly rendered flint with ashlar and re-used brick or tile dressings, and features plaintiled roofs. The church has an aisleless nave and a south porch from the 15th century. The axial tower is the same width as the nave. The chancel, which has been rebuilt, includes a vestry to the north, primarily from the 19th century.

The nave contains four double-splayed windows, three of which are blocked, featuring Roman brick dressings. The western elevation has long and short quoins, a blocked triangular-headed west door surrounded by primitive billet-moulded stripwork, and a later three-light Y-traceried window above. There is a blocked 13th-century plain chamfered north door and a three-light Perpendicular north window with embattled transoms. The south side has a 13th-century two-light plate-traceried window with a quatrefoil flanked by blind trefoils and bell label stops to the hood mould, along with a restored three-light Perpendicular window and a plain chamfered south door.

The porch features a moulded entrance with spandrels and half-shafts with facetted capitals, along with vestiges of flushwork. The three-storey tower has long and short quoins and double-splayed windows, with two on the south and one on the north. It includes twin arched bell openings with through stone slabs on monolithic columns featuring cushion capitals and bases derived from the attic. Small double-splayed oculi are present on the east and west sides only. The tower is topped with a 15th-century crenellated parapet with flushwork.

Inside the nave, there is mutilated shallow recessed blind arcading with some surviving carved imposts, a simple nave angle piscina, and original semicircular headed tower arches with surviving stripwork and cable moulded imposts on the east side, while the west side features chip carved imposts. The late medieval chancel piscina has a cusped arch and carved eagles in the spandrels, likely re-set. The font is an octagonal structure with an arcaded shaft, angel corbels supporting the bowl, and badly damaged panel carvings. The Jacobean pulpit is arcaded and features a finely carved frieze.