St John the Baptist's Church, Hellington

St John the Baptist’s Church stands south of Hellington village in Norfolk, a redundant Anglican church built mainly in the 12th and 14th centuries. The building is Grade I listed and cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust. Its simple plan includes a nave, south porch, chancel and round west tower from the 12th century. The church is made of flint and brick with limestone dressings and slated roofs. The 14th-century porch has diagonally set niches and three open arches on each side. The Norman south doorway has a round-headed arch with three orders of shafts and elaborate carvings. Inside, the tower arch is round-headed and the chancel arch is pointed, with a 14th-century piscina and fragments of medieval glass. Visitors find the octagonal font with quatrefoil panels and 19th-century stained glass by J. and J. King of Norwich. The east window has five lights topped by a cross on the gable. The north wall of the chancel shows brick rebuilding and pilaster-buttresses. The church’s quiet setting south of the village adds to the calm atmosphere.