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St. Peter's - Ringland
Part of the Taverham Group of Churches
St. Peter’s Church
Rev Paul Seabrook Rector, - St Edmund’s Church
Taverham - 01603 868217 seabrooktribe@talktalk.net
Church Services can be found on Parish Newsletter under 'Ringland Parish News'
Full history of Ringland Church can be seen by clicking:
St. Peter’s Church has a 13th century tower and a 14th-15th century nave and chancel.
One of the most artistically and historically
significant churches in Norfolk, Ringland church exhibits the finest qualities
of late-medieval grandeur on an intimate scale. The first indication of this is
the wonderful nave roof.
There are similar roofs at St. Peter Mancroft in
Norwich and Framlingham in Suffolk, both much bigger churches, but neither of them
has anything like the impact of the roof here. The hammer beams are disguised
by coving, with flights of angels punctuating the coving, and supporting the
wallposts.
The coving lifts the roof as if it were floating in space, and
beneath the coving is Ringland's famous clerestory . As if all this were not enough, set into the
clerestory is one of central Norfolk's best collections of late Medieval
stained glass.
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