"BRESSINGHAM CHURCH"
'St John the Baptist'
Rector:
The Revd. Robert Mellowship,
The Rectory, High Road, Bressingham, Norfolk, IP22 2AT
Tel/Fax: 01379 688267
Email: robmellowship@msn.com
The church of St John the Baptist, partly rebuilt in 1527, is an edifice of
Flint and stone, mainly in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel
clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and the lofty embattled western tower
with pinnacles and containing 5 bells, and a clock installed in 1931 as a
memorial to Mrs. Nock : the roof, pulpit, reading-desk; and pews are of oak,
elaborately carved : the east window containing three fragments of ancient
stained glass. and there are several marble monuments to the family , of Thomas
Martin, the antiquary, and author of a " History of the Town of Thetford:" in
the north aisle is a memorial window, inserted at the expense of the late
Robert Newson Bunn, to his father, who resided in this parish upward of 40
years; another stained window was erected by Mrs. Huson: a new organ was
provided in 1914: the reredos was erected in 1932 in memory of Mrs. Nock.
