Next year will be the 600th anniversary of the first of the family letters which have made the name Paston famous, to mark which Yale University in the USA are to hold a major exhibition. Here at home in the UK the Paston Heritage Society and the UEA with other organisations are working on the … [Read more...]
A churchyard haven for wildflowers and wildlife with the Norfolk Wildlife Trust
Churchyards are becoming ever more important providing habitat for wildlife that has been vanishing elsewhere. And in Paston we've decided to do our bit with our large and somewhat unmanageable churchyard.. Norfolk Wildlife Trust have surveyed the churchyard and prepared a comprehensive … [Read more...]
Open Event at St Margaret’s
On Saturday 11th October we, that is the PCC and the Heritage Society, celebrated the completion of the repairs to the church - the first stage of the plans for adapting it to 21st century needs. To open the day the bell ringing team under the direction of Andrew Lubbock pulled off a quarter … [Read more...]
Discovered: Further Medieval Wall Paintings
Builders high up on scaffolding above the chancel arch making good cracks in the wall uncovered what they thought might be faint remains of some medieval wall paintings to add to St Christopher and the three living and three dead on the North Wall. Our medieval wall painting specialist Dr Andrea … [Read more...]
Television series with Helen Castor
This three part series is entitled "Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death" and presented by historian Helen Castor. In it is being featured the Paston family about whom she has written a book "Blood and Roses", and each programme has shown some footage of St Margarets and surrounds. Filming … [Read more...]
South Wall Buttresses Re-built
The buttresses on the south side of the nave originally erected when Elizabeth 1 was on the throne, have now been re-built, exactly as they were. As they were taken down each piece of stone was numbered to show its position so they could be put back in the same place. The original flint stones … [Read more...]
North Norfolk News article about the restoration work
The North Norfolk News has published an article about the restoration work, including some photos. See: http://tinyurl.com/n25vmps … [Read more...]
Restoration work has begun!
The big news is that the contractors W S Lusher & Son are now on site and at work on the first phase of our restoration project. . They expect to be here for 4 months till late November, and will have re-built two buttresses, repaired the chancel roof, installed new drainage and soak-aways to … [Read more...]