NHER 3467 (Building record) - St Botolph's Church, West Briggs

Anciently the church of West Briggs, now appropriated to Tottenhill, though in Wormegay civil parish. Fine Norman south door with zigzag, and cross on tympanum.
North door (blocked) very early Norman with straight head and suggestions of long and short work.
Small Norman window to north. Pevsner describes a Norman chancel arch with hoodmould, renewed 1877, with recesses on each side. Other nave windows; southwest is debased Perpendicular. Southeast two lancets under one hoodmould, and north brick lancet; both the latter are probably 17th century. South windows wide-splayed inside.
Chancel a hotchpotch of stone, brick and carrstone. East window intersected, of about 1300; two south lancets probably modern.

July 1978. Visit.
Tower Perpendicular. Carrstone with brick stair turret; niche to west. The nave roof has been lowered and there is an odd brick strainer-arch joining it to the tower on north. 17th century brick south porch. Modern buttresses on north and one on south. On exterior south wall a large late 17th century tablet. Chalice and paten 1567.
Interior inaccessible at time of visit, but through windows looks poor.
E. Rose (NAU), 7 July 1978.

'Roman quern' noted in chancel north wall by [1]. A. Rogerson (NLA) noted lava in east chancel wall and tower north wall and south east buttress, but not the above.
E. Rose (NLA), 7 January 1991.

April 1985. Listed, Grade I.
See (S1) for the complete listing details.

The north door is identical to the stair door in the east wall of Norwich Cathedral north transept, and together with that at Marham is one of a group of three. See (S2).
E. Rose (NLA), 5 December 2000.