St Mary’s, Elsing

Open daily 9am to 5pm

Church Street, Elsing, NR20 3EA

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This church was built in the 1330s and, little altered since, displays a uniformly decorated style. It has reputedly the widest pillarless nave span in East Anglia at 39ft. 6in. Dating from 1347, the famous Hastyngs brass shows Sir Hugh Hastings with angels receiving his soul. He is surrounded by comrades from the Hundred Years' War. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner calls it 'the most sumptuous of all English church brasses.'

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The Walsingham Way is a 37-mile waymarked pilgrimage path on footpaths and green lanes from Norwich to Walsingham. It embodies the tradition of pilgrimage in Norfolk and brings back into use the historical routes trod by countless pilgrims on their travels to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.

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