This is a familiar location to some as there once was a cache very close by which I never found. Even the CM no is the same. But this delightful little church deserves to be back on the map. Park near GZ but only to do this cache.
St Mary is a small, pleasant church in the quiet sleepy village of Arminghall. There was an significant restoration here at the hands of the major 19th century architect JP Seddon. He usually left churches looking pretty, and did that here, although Pevsner points out that the plans were rather more ornate than the result.
Everything is to scale; there is no change between nave and chancel, but an elegant little screen with a wide arch marks the transition. There is no dado to it, and the effect is of one of those trellises up which climbing plants grow.
The font is Seddon's, there is a decent late 19th century Anunciation scene, and there is very little sense of St Mary's medieval past remaining. Some 15th century bench ends have been cut into the stalls in the chancel, but they are large-scale, and probably came from a bigger church than this one originally.
Slightly later is a grand memorial of the late 17th century to John Herne, with a carved helm surmounting it. The sombre Latin seemed a little out of place in this light, simple church.
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