Remains Of Parish Church Of Mannington

The remains of the parish church of Mannington are a ruined structure built primarily of coursed flint, with iron conglomerate and iron conglomerate dressings and quoins. The church is roofless and consists of two cells: a nave and a chancel. The square chancel end, dating from the early 18th century, is constructed of coursed flint with brick dressings. Foundations of the former apse and part of a curved wall can still be seen to the southeast. The west wall of the nave features conglomerate quoins and a blocked central round-headed doorway with conglomerate dressings. There are north and south doors that have continuous chamfered and hollow chamfered moulding. Above the south door, there are the arms of de Valence, likely from the 19th century. The south wall contains a large blocked rounded-headed window with voussoirs made of iron conglomerate and glacial erratics. To the right of this window is a 14th-century two-light reticulated window set under an older round-headed relieving arch. Only the lower half of the chancel walls remains. Inside, there are brick dressings to the doorways and the 14th-century window, a rendered brick chancel arch with chamfered mouldings at the top, and a brick-blocked four-centred arch in the north wall. The church also features a plain octagonal font on an octagonal stem and a wall chest tomb in the north chancel dedicated to Sir John Potts and his wife Ursula, dated 1673. A raised coped sarcophagus, noted to be extant in 1887, belonged to the Earl of Orford, who died in 1894. The church was derelict and disused by the 1730s, as referenced in Blomfield's "History of Norfolk" from 1805.