North Walsham church Norfolk
The present parish church of St Nicholas, North Walsham was started about 1330. Work was interrupted by the 'Black Death' Plague in 1348 and again in 1361 which resulted in the lack of skilled craftsmen. There was another delay at the time of the Peasants Revolt in 1381. Several thousand labourers, led by local dyer John Litester, fled for sanctuary in the parish church closely pursued by the warlike bishop of Norwich, Henry le de Spenser who, being in the business, knew that the church hadn't been consecrated. He and his men instantly killed all who were captured killed instantly, heavily damaging the church in the process. But it was restored and completed and then the same bishop, in a nice touch of irony, consecrated the church towards the end of the fourteenth century. The church was then originally dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the change to St Nicholas only happening in later years after the Reformation. Her statue, however, still occupies its prime position in the centre of the main entrance porch.
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