Photograph Notes: The church of All Saints > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833319 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833345 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833358 was extensively restored during the 19th century because the building had become quite dilapidated. The south door with its wicket gate, however, dates from the 15th century > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833336 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833339. A small carving at its top depicts a fox preaching to geese. The restored hammerbeam roof rests on corbels rescued from the old building > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833363 and there are a number of other medieval survivals, perhaps the most noteworthy being the carved bench ends with poppy heads such as the depictions of three passing vices (gluttony: a drunkard > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833381 - anger: man holding a knife > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833386 - sloth: a man praying the rosary but falling asleep > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833391 - all standing in the open jaws of hell), a mermaid, a chalice, a variety of animals, a ship in sail > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833373 and a post mill > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833378. Only the rood screen dado has survived but it is one of only a few examples depicting not the 12 apostles but Old Testament prophets with scrolls > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833349 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833351 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833353. The C15 font is carved with shields > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833360. Of interest are also a few small brasses, C17 ledger stones >http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833367 and a fragment of Elizabethan text on the west wall. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thornham/thornham.htm The model of a windmill > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833404 in a glass display case at the west end of the south aisle shows the mill which once stood by the harbour until it was destroyed in 1929 in galeforce winds.
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