page_title: Attleborough
section_title: Church
hierarchical_section_title: Attleborough / Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Attleborough church, near to Attleborough, Norfolk, Great Britain. The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary dates from the 9th century.
context_page_description: Attleborough is a market town and civil parish located on the A11 between Norwich and Thetford in Norfolk, England. The parish is in the district of Breckland and has an area of 21.9 square kilometres.
  The 2001 Census recorded the town as having a population of 9,702 distributed between 4,185 households, increasing to a population of 10,482 in 4,481 households in the 2011 Census.
  Attleborough is in the Mid-Norfolk constituency of the UK Parliament, represented since the 2010 general election by the Conservative MP George Freeman.
  Attleborough railway station provides a main line rail service to both Norwich and Cambridge.
context_section_description: The parish church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is partly Norman and partly 14th century. The east end of the church is Norman and the nave is late 14th century. In 1368 the College of Holy Cross was founded in the Norman part and at that time the nave was built for the use of the parish. The remarkable rood screen has the loft intact for its full width but has been often restored. It is one of the finest rood screens in Norfolk and above are frescoes of ca. 1500, since much-mutilated.
caption: Attleborough parish church
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