Hardwick

St Margaret’s is central to Hardwick village. The church is largely accepted to be Norman, but has some Saxon features. Its round tower partially fell in 1770. The porch has an attractive brick and flint chequer pattern. A large wall painting of St Christopher dates from the C14th. Rising from a window sill is an old rood loft stairway.

St Margaret's collapsed tower (© David Ferre)                                                                                        Norman doorway                                                                               

 The former rood loft stairway                                             Every year a group of pilgrims Stops of at Hardwick on the Essex Leg of the

                                                                                            Student Cross pilgrimage (from Colchester) to Walsingham for Good Friday.

(Images of the Norman doorway and the rood loft stairway are © Simon Knott, www.norfolkchurches.co.uk)