English Heritage sites near Colby Parish
BACONSTHORPE CASTLE
8 miles from Colby Parish
Visit the extensive ruins of Baconsthorpe Castle, a moated and fortified 15th century manor house, that are a testament to the rise and fall of a prominent Norfolk family, the Heydons.
COW TOWER, NORWICH
13 miles from Colby 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.
BLAKENEY GUILDHALL
15 miles from Colby Parish
The remains of the house of a prosperous Blakeney merchant, with a fine 15th century brick-vaulted undercroft. Later the guildhall of Blakeney’s guild of fish merchants.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
16 miles from Colby Parish
A place with an unusual story, told by graphic panels. The small Norman chapel here stood on the site of an earlier timber church, probably the Saxon cathedral of East Anglia.
BINHAM MARKET CROSS
16 miles from Colby Parish
The tall shaft of a 15th century cross, on the site of an annual fair held from the 1100s until the 1950s.
BINHAM PRIORY
16 miles from Colby Parish
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.
Churches in Colby Parish
Banningham: St Botolph
Colby Road
Banningham
Norwich
01692 773886
Banningham is part of the United Benefice of King's Beck, together with the villages of Colby, Felmingham, Skeyton, Sloley, Suffield,Swanton Abbott and Tuttington. Sung Eucharist is held on Sunday at 10am in rotation around the churches.
The church building is a mix of styles. The chancel and central nave are Decorated, dating form the early 1300s, whereas the aisles, porch and tower are Perpendicular from the 1400s. Features of note include a thatched chancel roof, a font from 1400, box pews, a finely decorated Hammer Beam roof and some medieval wall paintings.
Banningham appears in the Domesday Book and there was a Manor here in the time of Edward the Confessor. The first known rector dates from 1316.
Colby: St Giles
Colby Road
Colby
Norwich
01692 773886
Colby is part of the United Benefice of King's Beck, together with the villages of Banningham, Felmingham, Skeyton, Sloley, Suffield, Swanton Abbott and Tuttington. Sung Eucharist is held on Sunday at 10am in rotation around the churches.
The church dates from the late13th century and bears evidence of later additions and restoration. The late 15th cent. porch has some superb carvings, as does the font from the same period.
Colby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Colebei (meaning "Koli's estate") and the first recorded rector was in 1314.
Pubs in Colby Parish
Crown Inn
Colby Road, Banningham, NR11 7DY
(01263) 733534
banninghamcrown.co.uk