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St
Andrew, East Runton
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North
Norfolk is a land of giants and medieval glories,
and so I suppose it is not surprising that St
Andrew is so little known. East Runton is part of
the pleasingly incoherent Cromer/Sheringham
straggle - I was going to use the word
conurbation, but it would be absurd for such a
backwater - and this little Anglican church is
just to the west of Cromer, which is just about
my favourite Norfolk town; but the parish church
there is a vast, anonymous barn of a place. St
Andrew, which I assume is in the parish of West
Runton, is exactly the opposite. John Salmon
had told me about the church; he attends Mass
here some Sundays, and now took me proudly to
show it off. After spending most of Holy Week
tracking down churches in Norfolk and Suffolk,
this was my first church after Easter, and
therefore the first church with flowers that I
had been in for a long time. This only served to
make it more pleasant, the Easter posies
complementing the cool white interior, almost
eastern with its apse and pointed arch. A fresh,
intimate space that was a joy on a sunny morning.
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I know
nothing about this church, and buildings like this with
flint walling are notoriously hard to date. But I suppose
it must be 1950s. Curiously, the 19th century building
behind it that I at first took to be the church turned
out to be a school. I wonder if it was the original
church?
Simon Knott, May 2006
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