GHOST SEEN IN HAUNTED CHURCH | Santon Church | S05E02 | Shadow Paranormal
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GHOST SEEN IN HAUNTED CHURCH | Santon Church | S05E02 | Shadow Paranormal

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Sophie and Luke along with Eddie Mallett investigate an extremely haunted Norfolk church and receive some of the best activity to date...

anton is a depopulated village located near Santon Downham in Norfolk, England. Moated earthworks and other remains of the medieval village are a scheduled monument.

The village church of All Saints' was rebuilt from ruins in the 17th century by Thomas Bancrofte, the sole parishioner at that time.

The site is adjacent to the Forestry Commission's St Helen's picnic site.

This is one of England's smallest churches, and it sits on the edge of its largest forest. You cross the river out of Suffolk, and before you reach the Cambridge to Norwich railway line 50 yards on you turn off to the picnic site. Beyond the tables and benches, the track leads down to three houses, all that remains of the village of Santon. All Saints huddles among them. Today, the village is part of the civil parish of Weeting, but its ecclesiastical parish is Santon Downham, which is mostly in Suffolk.
Santon Downham was once the hamlet to this, the larger village, but the centuries turn, the world changes, and now there is only a name on the map. All Saints managed to continue services up into the 1970s, but its redundancy was a sensible one, particularly since it remains in the care of such a conscientious parish. They look after it, and they keep it open. They deserve praise, and when funding for medieval churches becomes regulated by parliament, as it surely must, they deserve money.

Having said that, this is almost entirely a 19th century rebuild, as though some spoilt Victorian child had demanded a toy church, and Daddy had one built in the back garden. Mortlock says that it had, in any case, been rebuilt in the early 17th century, presumably by Laudians, after being abandoned at the Reformation.

Apart from an outrageously grand memorial to a former Rector to the east (my goodness, what an easy life that must have been here!) there are very few gravestones; perhaps the most interesting is one to the Lockwood family, which you can see at the bottom of the page.

Evangelists in the south window - Pugin?
The pretty little octagonal tower actually tops the vestry, which is shoehorned into the south-west corner. There are simple little pews with doors, and a clever arrangement towards the east allows access through a baby roodscreen into quite the tiniest little chancel - you could almost touch all three walls at once. The altar rail can accomodate just two people at a time.
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