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Great Walshingham is much smaller than its neighbour Little Walshingham, which gets all the attention because of the shrine and other buildings associated with Our Lady of Walshingham.

Claimed to date back to around 520AD, the present tower was built in the 13th century, and most of the body of the church was rebuilt in the 19th century.

The Priory church of St Mary & the Holy Cross was the nave of a Benedictine priory church, the priory was dedicated to St Mary and the church to the Holy Cross.

The best Arts & Crafts church in the county.

St Andrew's dates from the time of King Henry II (1154 -89) and it still retains its Norman arcade as well as additions from every subsequent medieval century which give this church a rich and varied history.

It is believed that the present building has its origins in 12th century but there was probably an earlier Anglo Saxon or even Celtic church, for the boundary of the original churchyard forms an almost perfect circle, a feature shared with many churches of known Celtic origin.

With its stunning gothic style architecture, the eminent art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints as 'a church as out of the ordinary for scale as for style'.

For centuries this was an estate church to a succession of families; the Burnabys, Clerkes, and then the Henley/Eden family who successively owned the Watford Estate and Manor here.

Tiny, remote and very rural, the church here has a great treasure: a Norman tympanum showing the Lamb of God flanked by a griffin and a winged bull.

A church that tells the history of architecture over the centuries, from the Normans to the Victorians, and a real live who done it as you walk round our lovely church situated in the middle of a beautiful churchyard.

Externally it is the late 15th century tower that grabs one's attention.

The church of the Catesby family, whose manor is famous for the Gunpowder Plot Room where the conspirators formulated their plan, and where Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy were supposedly felled by a single shot here.