NHER 8829 (Building record) - St Nicholas' Church, Woodrising, Cranworth

Tower in ruins, bells in thatched hut.
Effigy of knight with two helmets above.
E. Rose (NAU)

(S1) notes the steeple already fallen; only one helmet above the knight then another old tomb between the south aisle and chancel.
Two helmets from tomb of Sir Southwell now on loan to Norwich Castle Museum.
E. Rose (NAU).

January 1980.
Skeleton in churchyard, aligned east to west, dated by a police forensic expert to 900 years old.
Bones seen by P. Wade-Martins (NAU) but NAU not informed before bones had ben removed from context.
E. Rose (NAU)

W. F. Milligan notes; skeleton was 45cm deep, found in digging drain, 1.22m from northwest corner; femur and pelvis of a male, probably in his early teens.
The bones are not of Late Saxon date, and have been reinterred.
E. Rose (NAU).

1970s or 80s. Alan Carter Norwich Survey.
See (S2), which includes (S3).
T.E. Miller (NLA), 19 April 2006.

Has a rare example of a barrel organ, see (S4).
E. Rose (NAU)

Church marked as 'In Ruins' on (S5).
E. Rose (NLA), 6 June 2002.

Church listed grade I, detached bellframe listed grade II.
See (S6).
E. Rose (NLA), 12 July 2005.

Medieval parish church, built in flint with ashlar dressings.
Ruined west tower, the rest of the church is mainly 14th century.
Hammerbeam roof, a double piscinae and a triple sedilia.
Large tomb of Sir Richard Southwell, who died in 1564, with a full size alabaster effigy, Renaissance columns and entablature.
Information from (S6).
S. Spooner (NLA) 12 September 2005.