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            The church of St. Michael, is built on the site of an earlier much smaller church at the northwest corner of the market place. 
The north transept was built under the patronage of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and lord of the manor of Aylsham around 1380. The nave, aisles and chancel were built in the late 13th. century. The tower and the ground floor of the porch were added in the 14th. century. The tower is topped off with a small, probably early 17th. century, wooden framed lead spirelet. The tower holds ten bells, with the tenor bell, tuned to E flat, weighing 17 hundredweight. This bell, cast in 1700, is the largest cast by Samuel Gilpin. Today it has a protection order on it. The upper floor of the porch was added by Richard Howard, Sheriff of Norwich, in 1488. 
A major Victorian restoration, particularly of the interior, was carried out in 1852 by the Rev. Edmund Yates. He replaced the traditional box pews with seating for over 700 and removed the galleries. 
The landscape gardener Humphry Repton is buried and commemorated with a memorial in a small walled garden near the south chancel door. Repton, who was born in Suffolk in 1752, had purchased a small county estate at Sustead, near Aylsham in 1778, and many of his earliest commissions were from local Norfolk landowners.
The churchyard also contains a very rare 'mortsafe, an iron grille placed over a grave to prevent body snatching.

The church received Grade: I listed building status on 10th. May 1961.(English Heritage Legacy ID: 228306).
   

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Taken on: October 30, 2023

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