English Heritage sites near Thurning Parish
BACONSTHORPE CASTLE
6 miles from Thurning Parish
Visit the extensive ruins of Baconsthorpe Castle, a moated and fortified 15th century manor house, that are a testament to the rise and fall of a prominent Norfolk family, the Heydons.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
8 miles from Thurning Parish
A place with an unusual story, told by graphic panels. The small Norman chapel here stood on the site of an earlier timber church, probably the Saxon cathedral of East Anglia.
BINHAM MARKET CROSS
8 miles from Thurning Parish
The tall shaft of a 15th century cross, on the site of an annual fair held from the 1100s until the 1950s.
BINHAM PRIORY
9 miles from Thurning Parish
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.
BLAKENEY GUILDHALL
9 miles from Thurning Parish
The remains of the house of a prosperous Blakeney merchant, with a fine 15th century brick-vaulted undercroft. Later the guildhall of Blakeney’s guild of fish merchants.
CREAKE ABBEY
15 miles from Thurning Parish
The ruined church of an Augustinian abbey, reduced in size after fire and plague.
Churches in Thurning Parish
Thurning: St Andrew
Thurning
Dereham
(01603) 879275
http://www.reepham-and-wensum-valley-team-churches.org.uk
Thurning is a small, charming church set in a rural hamlet. The church has changed little in the 700 years since built. The nave and the tower date from about 1300 and the north aisle was probably built some 200 years later. The Church is complete with a three-decker pulpit and dark oak fittings including box pews, a donation by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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No churches found in Thurning Parish