English Heritage sites near Kirstead Parish
COW TOWER, NORWICH
8 miles from Kirstead Parish
One of the earliest purpose-built artillery blockhouses in England, this brick tower was built in c.1398-9 to command a strategic point in Norwich’s city defence.
ST OLAVE'S PRIORY
10 miles from Kirstead Parish
The wonderfully complete 14th century brick-vaulted refectory undercroft - later a cottage occupied until 1902 - of a small Augustinian priory.
BERNEY ARMS WINDMILL
11 miles from Kirstead Parish
Visit one of Norfolk's best and largest extant marsh mills, built to grind a constituent of cement and in use until 1948, finally pumping water to drain surrounding marshland.
BURGH CASTLE ROMAN FORT
12 miles from Kirstead Parish
The imposing stone walls, with added towers for catapults, of a Roman 3rd century ‘Saxon Shore’ fort. Enjoy panoramic views over Breydon Water, into which the fourth wall long since collapsed.
GREAT YARMOUTH ROW HOUSES AND GREYFRIARS' CLOISTERS
15 miles from Kirstead Parish
Enjoy a rare trip back in time at this Norfolk visitor attraction. The delightful Row Houses at Row 111 and the Old Merchant’s House are rare remnants of Great Yarmouth’s original distinctive ‘Rows’.
CAISTER ROMAN FORT
16 miles from Kirstead Parish
The partial excavated remains of a Roman ‘Saxon Shore’ fort, including wall and ditch sections and building foundations.
Churches in Kirstead Parish
Kirstead: St Margaret
Kirstead
Norwich
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We are a small and friendly village church, seeking to serve our local community.
The church is the sole survivor of three churches, the rectors date from 1317. The church doorway is circa 1190 and the church was mostly rebuilt in 1864.
Kirstead St Margaret is dedicated to the patron saint of pregnant women, childbirth and of the dying Margaret (or Marina) of Antioch, who was possibly martyred in the persecution of Diocletian in the 4th century. Her ordeal with the Devil in the guise of a dragon involved her being swallowed but, proving too much an irritant whilst armed with a cross, was released. She can be seen crowned and slaying a dragon in the double-light window beside the pulpit. The other light records the former church of St Christopher, Langhale, which once stood in a field beside Bungay Road.
There is also a war memorial in the church yard which was overhauled in 2001 with a donation from the Parish Council.
No churches found in Kirstead Parish