The Church dedicated to St. Andrew was built on rising ground and is separated from the village by a little stream.
There used to be a chapel in the church dedicated to St. Anthony, who can be recognised in other East Anglian churches with his pig and bell (East Rudham and Westhall), or being tempted by an attractive lady (Ickworth and Tacolneston).
The round tower of this, and many East Anglian churches was the natural result of having to build with the only local stone available - flint - hence the difficulty of producing strong corners. The art of brickmaking was lost when the Romans left and brickmaking was not generally revived in England until the 15th century.
The flint from which the tower and most of the present church is built is found locally as concretions in the chalk, or weathered out and found in the soil, and no doubt in early days much could be collected from the fields after ploughing. On the east side of the tower are arches of carstone. This is a dark reddish-brown sandstone with iron ore in it. It is an unusual building material in the area but it is also found in the ruins of the Saxon Cathedral at North Elmham, some eight miles to the south. It was quarried at Dersingham and Snettisham, by the Wash (South of Hunstanton).
The unique south doorway consists of three arches — the innermost being a plain Norman round arch, outside this, according to Pevsner, the stones of what had been a broad round arch were reassembled, including the zigzag at right angles to the wall, to produce a narrow, sharply pointed arch with a lion's head at the apex.
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