St Mary

Dating back to pre Conquest times, it has a small Saxon window in the west wall, and two Norman doorways.

The setting and the building are enchanting in themselves, but there is more inside: notably a rare, beautifully painted and gilded nine panel retable vividly depicting saints, in glowing colours, flanking a Crucifixion panel.

Thought to have been made in the 1330s for the Dominican priory at Thetford, this extraordinary masterpiece was discovered in a stable by Lord Henniker of Thornham Hallin 1927. The panel has a matching altar frontispiece, which somehow found its way into the Mus'e de Cluny in Paris. Yet another treasure at Thornham Parva is a series of very early wall paintings depicting the life and martyrdom of St Edmund.