It has been 700 years since a rector took to the pulpit at All Saints Church in the tranquil village of Sharrington.
And now the community around the historic place of worship, near Holt, is preparing to celebrate the remarkable milestone with a special open day.
The event at the Bale Road church will run from 11am-3pm on Saturday, October 28, and will include presentations about the building’s history, quizzes and games for children, and free refreshments including hot drinks, light lunches and cakes.
Pippa Long, one of the churchwardens, said: “The idea was to give something back to the village.
"Hopefully people will learn something they didn’t know before.”
Sharrington’s village website says of de Morton’s work: “Of course, being a Norman French Roman Catholic priest, conducting the service in Latin, it is doubtful whether many of the congregation understood any of it, but they would have been taught the responses by rote.”
All Saints has an unusually large tower for the size of the building, because a large part of the church was demolished in the 19th Century.
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