Morton-on-the-Hill

The church: St Margaret

St Margaret's church has the only round Saxon tower in the benefice. Part of the nave walls are also Saxon; other parts of the church are 14th century and later.
Regular worship was conducted here up to and including Easter Sunday, 1959. That night the tower collapsed, and the church remained unrepaired for twenty years. Then, with close co-operation between Lady Prince-Smith and the Norfolk Churches Trust, assisted by voluntary helpers, it was possible to restore the body of the church, leaving the ruined tower outside.
More information about the church and its renovation can be found in a leaflet; you can download it by clicking here (Adobe Reader PDF format, 600KB).
The church is now technically redundant, but is used for occasional services.
Your webmistress was proud to have had a photograph of the atmospheric churchyard at St Margaret's featured on the BBC's weekly selection of photographs in January 2006. Click here to see the selection; the photograph is number 4 in the series.
Click here for Simon Knott's report on this church.

The village of Morton-on-the-Hill consists largely of the Morton Hall estate, together with a few houses on both sides of the Fakenham Road as it approaches Great Witchingham, and also along The Street, just to the north.
There is a total population of around 85.