The Old Rectory, Great Dunham, Norfolk

I Location

Site Location
Great Dunham
National Grid Reference
NGR TF 87 14
County
traditional: Norfolk
now: Norfolk
Type of building/monument
Rectory

II General Description

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.

III Exterior Features

4. Other

Loose fragment, colonnette.

Loose fragment, colonnette.

Of the five cylindrical fragments, only one has sculpture. This is decorated on two adjacent faces with a roundel, or medallion, containing a rosette, the petals of which taper towards the centre. The two roundels meet at right-angles to each other and are flat, rather than curving to follow the form of the colonnette, perhaps indicating the square section of the block from which the cylinder was carved.

IX Bibliography

  • N. Pevsner and B. Wilson, The Buildings of England: Norfolk, Harmondsworth, 1962, Revised 1999, 2:365.