Northwold

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "The Church is dedicated to St. Andrew, and has its nave, north and south isles, with a chancel, all built with flint stones, boulder, &c. covered with lead; at the west end of the nave is a very large and lofty four-square tower, of the aforesaid materials, with quoins and embattlements of freestone, and eight pinnacles of stone, carved; in this tower hang five bells, and here is a clock, with a dial on the south side, fronting the street; this neat and strong tower was built in the reign of King Edward IV. [i.e., 1461-1483] as appears from the will of John Miller of Weeting, dated in 1473, wherein he bequeaths 20s. towards the building of it." Blomefield (ibid.) further notes: "Mr. Walter de Stow occurs rector about 1290", which gives us a rector for a church here earlier than the present one. A font here is described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a late baptismal font abandoned and unused in the churchyard. That may be one of two late fonts reported in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): one of "1882 with a font cover of 1887", or, perhaps, "A big c18 baluster font in the chancel". Both these fonts are illustrated in Knott (2008), the former with a tall openwork cover [NB: neither of these modern fonts is listed separately in this Index -- we have no information on the earlier font(s)]