St Edmund's Church rises elegantly from its marshy landscape. It is largely Perpendicular but the chancel is Early English with its beautiful lancet windows. The eye is drawn to the little spirelet and sanctus bell cote. The interior is expansive and bright with a choir of angels adorning the tie beams and apostles adorning the wall posts. In the south aisle chapel are two magnificent monuments. Sir Thomas Hewer (d.1631) lies in his armour next to his wife Emma under a grand canopy resting on marble pillars. Their infant son lies at their feet, his head of curly golden hair rests on a pillow under which a skull peeps out. An eerie skull with a broken crown sits atop the Hewer coat of arms. The stonemason was Nicholas Stone, the leading sculptor of the 17th century. The other monument commemorates an earlier Sir Thomas Hewer (d. 1586) and his wife and retains the original paintwork. Also of interest is the 15th century glass set high in the north aisle windows. St Zita is beautifully depicted with her keys. There are many things a visitor expects to find in a Norfolk church but a stained-glass window of Thomas the Tank Engine is not one of them. A window in St Edmund’s Church in Emneth commemorates its creator, Reverend Wilbert Awdry OBE, who was vicar there from 1953 to 1965. A blue plaque at the Old Vicarage in Emneth memorializes Reverend Wilbert, the vicarage where he set up an extensive model railway in the loft.