All Saints, Fring, Norfolk

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Location
(52°52′54″N, 0°34′42″E)
Site Location
Fring
National Grid Reference
TF736347
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Norfolk now Norfolk
Dedication
medieval All Saints now All Saints
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Jill A Franklin
Visit Date

1986

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Feature Sets
Description

Consisting of a chancel, aisleless nave and W tower, All Saints presents as a 14thc church, recorded in building in 1327 and restored in 1897. The only Romanesque sculpture there now - the pillar piscina reused ingloriously inside the W tower - might, however, be all that survives of an earlier structure.

History

Fring, in Docking hundred, appears to have been a large settlement in the middle ages. Archbishop Stigand was overlord before the Conquest. In 1086, Domesday Book lists Count Eustace of Boulogne, William of Warenne and Bishop William of Thetford as tenants-in-chief.

Features

Furnishings

Piscinae/Pillar Piscinae

Bibliography

Historic England Listed Building 1304672

H. Munro Cautley, Norfolk Churches, 1949, 199.

  1. N. Pevsner and Bill Wilson, The Buildings of England, Norfolk: North-West and South, Harmondsworth1962, 2nd edn 1999, rev. 2000, 2: 346.
  1. A. Williams and G.H. Martin (ed), Domesday Book: A Complete Translation, Harmondsworth 1992/2002, 1082, 1090, 1115.