NHER 8925 (Building record) - All Saints' Church, Wicklewood

Massive south porch tower, apparently Decorated; huge pilasters to its entrance traces of vaulting inside, but now supporting old carved wooden ceiling that itself seems 15th century. Was vaulting ever completed? Piscina here may have older bowl. Cox notes two fireplaces in upper storey. Stair turret projects into nave. Later sundial over entrance. Original bar in socket for south door, though doors themselves are 18th century. Nave and chancel probably originally Decorated also; chancel arch has no pilasters, the capitals emerge from the walls. Decorated piscina south nave wall east end (with unusual humanoid carving reset above); another in chancel next to sedilia with uncomfortably low arch. Simple piscina by south door. Chancel southeast window more Decorated than Perpendicular (east window Victorian) but all other windows Perpendicular; in nave, upper parts of walls (from sill level upwards) rebuilt with windows in courses of knapped flint and brick, with brick edged putlog holes. Same applies to blank west wall, though gable here has probably been restored since. Round-headed niche in north wall interior. Upper rood door remains. 19th century vestry on site of north porch (note no windows above). Arch-braced nave roof - 17th century? Similar chancel roof looks older. Carved Decorated font. Few poppyhead benchends at west. 18th century floor tombs ledger stones. Old chest with three locks. Some old stained glass. Chalice, paten, alms dish 1808. Good 18th century gravestones in yard. In 19th century, a turnstile was erected to count church goers and children attending school; it was supposed to have been removed in 1895, but a wooden turnstile remains by the gate.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU) 6 December 1978.

(S1) concerning the above mentioned fireplaces in the tower, states that there was an oven and chimney on first floor, and a chimney on second floor on other side. The rood loft was still there at this time (as it was in 1865, see (S2)). The above mentioned sundial over entrance was found to be a reused heraldic shield. Note by Walter Rye bound in with Martin (Norfolk Records Office Manuscript).
Martin also saw an old chest (the one mentioned?) that had pebbles knocked into it so that it could not be sawn open.

With regard to the alternate courses of medieval brick and galletted knapped flint as mentioned above, (S3) states this is a unique build for this date, parallelled only by fragmentary work in buttresses at Kedlington.
E. Rose (NLA) 4 January 2001.