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1. St Peter, Belaugh, Norfolk, England

Parish church
The church has a continuous nave and chancel which are Romanesque, or perhaps earlier. A N aisle was added c. 1300 and a square W tower in the late 14thc. The font situated at the W end of the nave constitutes the only Romanesque carving in the building.
2. St Mary, Brettenham, Norfolk, England

Parish church
The present church consists of a nave, chancel, N and S transepts and W tower. The medieval structure was in a ruinous condition when it was remodelled in 1852 in the Decorated Gothic style of the 14thc. by Samuel Saunders Teulon (1812-73), who added an octagonal vestry on the N side of the chancel. The only Romanesque sculpture occurs on the S doorway. This was retained and incorporated in the 19thc. rebuilding, apparently in situ. The base of the medieval W tower and SW corner of the nave also survived.
3. St Mary, Bridgham, Norfolk, England

Parish church
Now comprising a nave and chancel, St Mary’s also appears to have had a W tower of which no fabric now survives. The church, which has a fine 15thc. font and double piscina, also houses the reset remains of a pillar piscina, which constitutes the only Romanesque feature at the site.
4. All Saints, Old Buckenham, Norfolk, England

Parish church
All Saints comprises a chancel, nave, N aisle and polygonal W tower. The W tower and chancel date from the 14thc. and were restored in the mid-19thc. Both nave and chancel are thatched. All that survives of the Romanesque building, apart from the reused doorway, is the W wall of the nave. Romanesque sculpture is found on the N doorway.
5. St Clement, Burnham Overy, Norfolk, England

Parish church
Of the aisleless, cruciform church, the upper part of the tower survives, with its four (reduced) internal openings and Romanesque windows. Aisles were added to the nave c.1200, both N and S, but the former was later dismantled. The chancel was remodelled in the 13thc. and again in 1835.
6. All Saints, Burnham Ulph, Norfolk, England

Parish church
One of the seven parish churches in the Burnhams, the series of villages lying in close proximity to each other in a once prosperous coastal region of north-west Norfolk, the medieval building at Burnham Ulph had a chancel and an aisleless nave. By the early 19thc., the chancel was partly ruinous, as recorded in J. S. Cotman’s engraving, published in 1838. The church was substantially rebuilt in 1879. The chancel arch, pointed and with a keeled soffit moulding, is supported on crocket capitals and is datable to c.1190. There are reused fragments of an earlier 12thc. date in the SE chancel buttress.
7. Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk, England

Monastic church and Priory complex, now in the care of English Heritage
The ruins of the priory lie approximately a quarter of a mile SW of Castle Acre village on low marshy ground near the river Nar. The remains of the castle keep stand on a motte surrounded by a bailey and earthworks on the east side of the village, and the extensive outer defences of the castle enclosed the priory site as well as the village. In the centre of the village is the Bailey Gate, originally the north entrance to the bailey. The extent of the priory enclosure can be gained from the position of the gatehouse of c.1500, to the north of the priory church. The layout of the monastery is still clearly discernible.
8. St Nicholas, Fundenhall, Norfolk, England

Parish church
The church, comprising a chancel, central tower and aiseless nave, was partly rebuilt in the 13thc. and extensively restored in 1869. The Romanesque central tower survives, although in the interior neither of the original arches was kept and only the westernmost supports of the W arch have been retained unmodified. Of the two nave doorways, that on the S is Romanesque. Its ornament is restrained and rather elegant.
9. The Old Rectory, Great Dunham, Norfolk, England

Rectory
Five colonnette fragments made from coarse limestone, weathered and covered with moss, are embedded around the edge of the front lawn of the Old Rectory in the village of Great Dunham.
10. St Andrew, Great Dunham, Norfolk, England

Parish church
St Andrew's is of considerable significance, both for its architecture and as an institution. The aisleless nave and axial eastern tower, both with long-and-short quoins, are of equal width and are part of the same late 11th-early 12thc. build. The present rectangular chancel is Perpendicular Gothic. The foundations of the former chancel, exposed in the 19thc., revealed this to have been apsidal in plan. There is Romanesque architectural sculpture on both the interior and exterior of the nave, the blocked W doorway and the tower arches. A small group of Romanesque carved fragments is stored in the porch and inside the church.
11. St Mary, Hassingham, Norfolk, England

Parish church
The church comprises chancel, aisleless nave and round W tower. All that certainly survives from the 12thc. is the W tower and the S doorway. The nave was rebuilt, or perhaps renovated, in the 13thc., as the lancet window in the S wall indicates. The interior of the church was remodelled in the 15thc. when a new arch to the tower and to the chancel was inserted. The date of 1849 above the S doorway probably records a refurbishment at that date. Romanesque sculpture is found on the S doorway.
12. St Ethelbert, Larling, Norfolk, England

Parish church
St Ethelbert’s comprises a square W tower, chancel, nave and S aisle. The N nave wall of the Norman church survives, although restored. The chancel and S aisle date from about 1300 and the W tower is of the late 15thc. The church, including the porch sheltering the elaborately decorated Romanesque S door, underwent restoration in the 19thc. Within the building there is a Romanesque font and also a colonnette, reused as a support for the Gothic piscina in the chancel.
13. St Andrew, Quidenham, Norfolk, England

Parish church
The church consists of an early 14thc. chancel, a nave with just a S aisle and, at the western end, a Romanesque round tower which rises to terminate in a late 14thc. octagon. The S aisle was added in the 13thc. The Romanesque N doorway is simple and elegant, almost without ornament and relatively tall and narrow. The ironwork of the present wooden door dates from the 12thc. Three Romanesque colonnette fragments are reset in the N wall of the 14thc. chancel.
14. All Saints, Roydon, Norfolk, England

Parish church
The original church was rebuilt in neo-Norman style by G. E. Street in 1857, incorporating two original Romanesque doorways.
15. All Saints, Shipdham, Norfolk, England

Parish church
All Saints has a chancel, nave, N aisle and 13thc. W tower, distinctively surmounted by a three-tier timber lantern that may date from the 16thc.. In the chancel, the late 12thc. door and piscina have pointed arches. The 14thc. N aisle has an impressive timber roof. There is a two-storeyed S porch with an ogee niche. The font is the only feature with Romanesque sculpture.
16. St George, South Acre, Norfolk, England

Parish church
The present church, consisting of a chancel, nave, N aisle and a rectangular W tower the same width as the nave, is substantially 14thc. in date and has an impressive hammerbeam roof. The font is the only feature with Romanesque sculpture.
17. All Saints, Thurlton, Norfolk, England

Parish church
This aisleless church has a thatched nave and chancel. The windows, N porch and W tower date from the 15thc., while the carved Romanesque S doorway surviving in the flint wall of the nave, together with a deeply-splayed round-arched recess low in the N wall of the chancel, indicate that the structure of the building is substantially earlier.
18. St Mary, Winfarthing, Norfolk, England

Parish church
The present church, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle and W tower, is built of flint. Details such as window tracery date to the 14th and 15thc., with some Victorian restoration. The font is the is the only feature with Romanesque sculpture in the church and presumably survives from the building's earlier history, perhaps represented by the N nave wall, pierced in the 14thc. to receive windows with reticulated tracery and deep, undressed embrasures.