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The modest sized Grade II* church of the Assumption is at least 12th century in origin.

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.