I have always had a love of old churches.
I was fortunate recently to visit All Saints Church in Catfield, Norfolk which is a typical Norfolk Parish Church, built of flint in the Middle Ages, with a square west end containing six bells, a nave with two aisles, a chancel, a porch with parvise. It was largely built in the late 14th Century although the tower may be older. While the chancel and a Porch are 15th Century. painted
It has a rood screen between the nave and chancel with sixteen royal Saints painted on in the 15th Century, the arcades have faint medieval paintings discovered in the 1840's underneath the whitewash. The Victorian setting arrangement placed earlier box pews around a pulpit in the middle of the nave.
The setting for the church is so idyllic, the churchyard behind a small green with the parish War Memorial, which is inscribed with a verse of O'Valiant Hearts. A hymn written by John Stanhope Arkwright and which is largely forgotten now. It was specifically to be sung at Armistice Day services.
I decided to walk with my little terrier Patch past the church gate into the greenery surrounding with graves, then a little further through a little picket gate that lead us on through the woods. Countryside is beautiful with sprawling tree's, until just then we came upon two Nanny Goats who came over to see us but were well secured behind a secure barrier to the vast fields they were in, then a horse in the far distance.
A perfect walk.!
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