Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a Grade II* parish church located in Bircham Newton. It dates back to the 13th century and may have been built in two phases, incorporating elements from an earlier church. The structure is made of flint with stone dressings, featuring pantiled roofs on the nave and a slated roof on the chancel. The church has a west tower, a two-bay nave, and a two-bay chancel. The unbuttressed tower consists of four stages, with two paired lancets at the ground floor, a single lancet in the middle stage, four lancets in the bell stage, and a battlemented parapet. The south nave door dates to around 1300 and has two paired lancets internally with a single embrasure. A straight joint indicates that the nave may have been built in two phases. The north side of the nave has a door opening from around 1300. The chancel features later 13th-century details, including two south windows with 'Y' tracery and a three-light east window with intersected tracery. The north face of the chancel is blank and has a 19th-century vestry addition.

Inside, there is a Norman rectangular font with tapering sides, box pews with poppyheads that include pricket candle-holders, and a two-decker pulpit from the same period. The chancel arch may be Norman, featuring a round arch with simple imposts. The church displays the arms of George III, an early English piscina with a cusped trefoil-headed arch, and a 14th-century stone coffin lid effigy of a priest holding a heart, adorned with a nodding ogee arch and a tympanum featuring a sun and crescent moon with the face of a child.