© The Docking Benefice The Vicarage, Sedgeford Road, Docking PE31 8PN Telephone: 01485 517157
The Docking Benefice
Churches
Exceptional Churches Located in Beautiful West Norfolk
Villages
The Docking Benefice boasts some of Norfolk finest churches. They are all located in beautiful West Norfolk villages. The churches are open for regular services and for you to explore and enjoy their exceptional history and architecture.Docking
The oldest visible parts of St Mary’s are in the chancel, which was built shortly before the Black Death of 1348. It is highly likely, though that there was a church on this site long before that. The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book and in the year 1038 it was mentioned in documents linked with Aelfric, Bishop of Elmham.Bircham
The church is thought to be a 13th century extension of an older church building that dated back to Saxon times. There are a few architectural pieces of evidence to support this idea. The church is small and quite simple in design, but there are a couple of points of interest for the casual visitor.Sedgeford
St. Mary’s Church, as it is today, evolved from its foundation in the late 1200s over a period of about 200 years. The main feature of the church is its round Tower, one of 181 in England (not all intact) and 126 in Norfolk. Its unusual West front, with the ends of the aisles extended flush with the tower, is unique.
© The Docking Benefice The Vicarage, Sedgeford Road, Docking PE31 8PN Telephone:
01485 517157
The Docking Benefice
Churches
Exceptional Churches
Located in Beautiful West
Norfolk Villages
The Docking Benefice boasts some of Norfolk finest churches. They are all located in beautiful West Norfolk villages. The churches are open for regular services and for you to explore and enjoy their exceptional history and architecture.Docking
The oldest visible parts of St Mary’s are in the chancel, which was built shortly before the Black Death of 1348. It is highly likely, though that there was a church on this site long before that. The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book and in the year 1038 it was mentioned in documents linked with Aelfric, Bishop of Elmham.Bircham
The church is thought to be a 13th century extension of an older church building that dated back to Saxon times. There are a few architectural pieces of evidence to support this idea. The church is small and quite simple in design, but there are a couple of points of interest for the casual visitor.Sedgeford
St. Mary’s Church, as it is today, evolved from its foundation in the late 1200s over a period of about 200 years. The main feature of the church is its round Tower, one of 181 in England (not all intact) and 126 in Norfolk. Its unusual West front, with the ends of the aisles extended flush with the tower, is unique.
