All Saints, Oxwick, Norfolk

all saints, Oxwick, Norfolk

Now this one was a little harder to find, so the photos start with the view from the main road, as you can see it's entrance is hidden withing the bushes! wouldn't have guessed it was up there if it wasn't for the public footpath sign, kind of gave it away for some reason.

This church probably saddened me the most, it would have been so beautiful in it's day, such a lovely setting. I was very saddened to see a babies grave, only one day old, it did get to me and i felt bad for not being able to put flowers down and there was none about either, silly i know but i'm a woman!!

Not much of it left again, and some parts over grown but easily accessible.

Apparently declared redundant in 1946 which was when the roof was taken off as they seemed to do with most of the churches, mainly due to the value, the tower had already been lost but still has the base of it.
































the baby, born august 12th 1871 died on the 13th which was a sunday

Very nice Jess, but the photos are rather small

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Looked very nice and creepy heading into the church. The ground appears to be very very soft i found my self sinking where i walked at times so this could explain the loss of the tower.


Found an old photo of how it used to look on the web i take no credit for the scan.

Appears that the tower was lost in the 18th or 19th century and the base of it was made into that small vestbule.



Aparently the church was cleared and the crumbling walls topped off in 1993 to stop further decay also many graves were re raised and several show clear signs of being well maintained the most prominent is the grave of a local WW1 soilder who lost his life at the age of just 23.

Jesus Jess! Just how far did you get across this county.

sadly only 8 out of the 30 i wanted to get too, and 3 were not accessible
was a very busy day!!!

Did you manage St Micheals at Sco Ruston?

no it was abit far out for today, just visited some between kings lynn and Edgefield. hoping to get further out in the coming weekends, have seen your post on it, i do like the ones that are overgrown in nature, they look peaceful...

jess81 said:

no it was abit far out for today, just visited some between kings lynn and Edgefield. hoping to get further out in the coming weekends, have seen your post on it, i do like the ones that are overgrown in nature, they look peaceful...

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Yah it was very quiet. You must have a long way to come and pack an awful lot into one day!

Good to see more of this place. I did it back in the spring and found it a bit strange how the church is completely derelict, yet some of the graves are relatively recent. Some of my ancestors are no doubt buried there, as they owned a big chunk of the local area, but I failed to find any graves, which are probably too old to locate now.

The baby's grave touched me too. When I visited, someone had picked daffodils and placed on the grave. It probably gets more flowers than most more modern graves!

HypoBoy said:

Good to see more of this place. I did it back in the spring and found it a bit strange how the church is completely derelict, yet some of the graves are relatively recent. Some of my ancestors are no doubt buried there, as they owned a big chunk of the local area, but I failed to find any graves, which are probably too old to locate now.

The baby's grave touched me too. When I visited, someone had picked daffodils and placed on the grave. It probably gets more flowers than most more modern graves!

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There was a Babies Grave at Sco Ruston when I went Hypo. I tend not to go too nar them as they choke me up.