NHER 2433 (Building record) - Holy Trinity Church, Stow Bardolph

(S1) noted it as thatched, square tower: north chancel chapel. (S2) shows roof with two collars to every rafter couple, set high up, and two struts below them at a lower level. This roof is now replaced. (S3) refers to a crossed coffin slab here.
For detailed report of the Sarah Hare wax effigy, its conservation etc see (S4).
E. Rose 7 December 1987.

Norman tower base and part north wall, of conglomerate. Traces of 13th century work; 14th century chancel arch and door. Upper part of tower and former porch. Perpendicular, possibly as late as 1509. Tower buttresses 1589. Here Chapel 1624. Rebuilding by R. Brandon 1848-1850, organ chamber 1869. Brandon's work is an important early example of Gothic Revival. The Hare chapel contains a nationally important set of memorials 17th-19th century including the only remaining funerary wax effigy outside London.
See report (S5) and press cuttings (S6) and (S7) in secondary file.
E. Rose (NLA), 17 July 2000.

This is one of the sixty five Norfolk churches selected for (S8).
D. Gurney (NLA), 17 February 2006.

The wax effigy is of Sarah Hare, d. 1743, and is in a mahogany case close to her grave (S9).
D. Gurney (NLA), 14 April 2009.