Church History


A Saxon church: To be or not to be?

Last Updated: 3rd August 2025

Some thoughts on St Andrew's origins formulated during recent repointing and repair work


Building the Rectory in 1821

Last Updated: 15th April 2022

The Specification and Plans of the new Parsonage built for the Revd. William Ray Clayton, Rector of Great and Little Ryburgh 1820-1858


Ryburgh and the Revd. George Edmund Tatham

Last Updated: 23rd November 2021

The first Tatham "makeover" of St Andrews, much of it in George Tatham's own words


1910 in the days before the Upper Wensum Diary

Last Updated: 21st November 2021

Ryburgh from the pages of the first surviving Parish magazines


The remaining glass and other heraldry in St Andrews

Last Updated: 7th April 2022

Besides the many William Wailes windows, we have a few other bits of Victorian glass and some interesting survivors of a bygone era.


William Wailes Glass

Last Updated: 18th September 2022

We believe that we have the largest collection of William Wailes' glass in Norfolk. It has in the past been described " by common consent to be of the very worst of the Victorian period" How opinions change in 50 years!


John Christian A.M.

Last Updated: 2nd March 2022

Who was the occupant of the ledger stone in the chancel at St Andrew's?


Snapshots of the past at Ryburgh Church

Last Updated: 29th November 2020

A collection of family photograph's recording life at St Andrew's in times past


The Chancel Arch Inscription

Last Updated: 2nd March 2022

Changing fashions in St Andrew's


The Ryburgh Angels

Last Updated: 12th July 2014

Details of the 1912 embroidery

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