St Nicholas Church

The Domesday Book records a church at Walsam, and that the church owned 30 acres of land. There are remains of the original pre-Conquest tower at the west end of the church's north aisle. The present church was commenced in about 1330, although the Saxon church was partially enlarged and altered in around 1275, as a temporary measure to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding town.5}} Work was interrupted by the 'Black Death' plague in 1348 and again in 1361. These fatal epidemics resulted in a lack of skilled craftsmen, a fact which necessitated the austere simple tracery in most of the windows. There was another delay at the time of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, following the Battle of…

St Nicholas Church is located in the centre of North Walsham close to the marketplace, and surrounded by narrow streets. The building is about 160 ft long internally, and approx. 200 ft overall when the ruined tower is included. The body of the church has a mixture of Decorated Gothic and Perpendicular styles.624}} The building has seven bays running along its length. It lacks an arch to the entrance of the chancel. In the west wall of the north aisle is a lancet window. Most of the aisle windows have restored intersecting tracery. The main entrance doorway and the chancel are Decorated. The east window and east aisle windows were restored in 1874,624}} and the 500-year-old medieval roof…