English Heritage sites near Fring Parish
CREAKE ABBEY
8 miles from Fring Parish
The ruined church of an Augustinian abbey, reduced in size after fire and plague.
CASTLE RISING CASTLE
8 miles from Fring Parish
One of the largest, best preserved and most lavishly decorated keeps in England, surrounded by 20 acres of mighty earthworks.
CASTLE ACRE CASTLE AND BAILEY GATE
13 miles from Fring Parish
The delightful village of Castle Acre boasts an extraordinary wealth of history and is a very rare and complete survival of a Norman planned settlement.
CASTLE ACRE: CASTLE ACRE PRIORY
13 miles from Fring Parish
This important Norfolk visitor attraction is one of the largest and best preserved monastic sites in England dating back to 1090.
BINHAM PRIORY
15 miles from Fring Parish
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.
BINHAM MARKET CROSS
15 miles from Fring Parish
The tall shaft of a 15th century cross, on the site of an annual fair held from the 1100s until the 1950s.
Churches in Fring Parish
Fring: All Saints
We welcome all visitors to our friendly, traditional church with its reassuringly familiar hymns and services.A church of great charm and antiquity it was built in 1300 1330 on lands owned by Norwich Priory from 1001. Records in Norwich Cathedral show a grant of 6s 8d towards the building.
The original 14th C. bell still hangs in the bell tower and was restored in 1999.
Little change has been made to the structure since the Reformation save the addition of a fine modern stained glass window in 1984.
Extracts from Blomffield's Norfolk:
" The church.... was a rectory and...in the time of Edward I had a manse and 40 acres of glebe. It was appropriated by Bishop Bateman to the priory of Norwich on May 13th 1352, on condition that the profits be applied to find the monks' shoes.."
No churches found in Fring Parish