Keswick is a village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

of Keswick and Intwood, in

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

, England. It is situated some to the south of the city of

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

. It should not be mistaken for the coastal settlement of Keswick, near Bacton, which is also in Norfolk. The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 431 in 248 households, the population increasing to 444 at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the

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South Norfolk South Norfolk is a local government district in Norfolk, England. Its council is based in Long Stratton. The population of the Local Authority District was 124,012 as taken at the 2011 Census. History The district was formed on 1 April 19 ...

. The church of Keswick All Saints is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in

. There was a small early church here, but it was demolished c 1598 to use the materials to repair Intwood’s round-tower church, when the two

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...

es were consolidated. The original east wall of the

chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse. Ov ...

still stands to the east of the existing

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, and part of the tower could also be Saxon, although it was much repaired in 1893. At that time the short

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

was added to the tower to make a mortuary

chapel A chapel is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. Firstly, smaller spaces inside a church that have their own altar are often called chapels; the Lady chapel is a common ty ...

. In 1934

services were authorised, but the

apse In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an '' exedra''. ...

was not added until some decades later. Keswick Hall near All Saints was the representative manor and country house that served as a residence of the

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. Between 1948 and 1981 it accommodated a

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(which was then incorporated into the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

) prior to being converted into apartments. Several members of the Gurneys of Keswick are buried in the churchyard of All Saints. Former professional footballer

Darren Huckerby Darren Carl Huckerby (born 23 April 1976) is an English football coach and former professional footballer. As a player, he was a forward who notably played in the Premier League for Newcastle United, Coventry City, Leeds United, Manchester Ci ...

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Gallery

File:All Saints Church and surrounding churchyard - geograph.org.uk - 1348125.jpg, All Saints File:All Saints Church - geograph.org.uk - 1348129.jpg, All Saints File:Keswick Hall - geograph.org.uk - 27729.jpg, Keswick Hall File:Keswick Old Hall, across the pond - geograph.org.uk - 232238.jpg, Keswick Old Hall

References

# Ordnance Survey (1999). ''OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich''. . # Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001).
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
'. Retrieved 2 December 2005. # ''The Round Tower Churches of Norfolk'' by Lyn Stilgoe, illustrated by Dorothy Shreeve, 2001, Canterbury Press, Norwich;

External links

All Saints on the European Round Tower Churches WebsiteInformation from Genuki Norfolk on KeswickWebsite dedicated to the former teacher training college at Keswick Hall
{{authority control Keswick, South Norfolk Villages in Norfolk