Monday 23rd March 2026
Filby:
Decided it was time to get back to exploring/re-exploring some Norfolk
Churches. Lapsed a bit since Gill is not as mobile nowadays.
As Gill has been house-bound with this cough for ages we decided to go for a
drive and to revisit the church of All Saints in Filby. The area of Filby and
Mautby is where my paternal great, great grandparents Miles and Elizabeth moved
to in the mid 1860’s from Hoveton where others of the family remained. They had
12 children who survived at least infancy, some into their eighties or nineties,
plus a possible thirteenth who died in infancy.
The churchyard, along with St Peter & St Paul at Mautby is where many of
their descendants (and my ancestors!) are buried.
Filby’s church is large, 14th C. with a tower added in the
succeeding couple of centuries. Its outstanding feature is a 15th C.
roodscreen with eight figures. My modest photo selection is from earlier visits
in 2010 and 2014.
I hope to post more photos of Norfolk churches in the coming months and if
anyone is interested in a bit of ‘church crawling’ do let me know.
I will also post this on the club blogsite and in the meantime would recommend
Simon Knotts superb website - Norfolk Churches - for
far better details of Filby than mine, and also around 924 other Norfolk
churches!
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