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It's well worth taking
the country road to Worlingworth, a long, straggling village whose
Church of St Mary has a remarkable font cover reaching up about 30
feet. It is brilliantly coloured and intricately carved and near
the top is an inscription in Greek which translates as 'wash my sin
and not my body only'. Note, too, the Carolean box pews, the carved
pulpit and an oil painting of Worlingworth's Great Feast of 1810
to celebrate George III's jubilee. In the year 1780 a well was made at the parsonage house in this parish 96 feet deep but the water being a strong mineral and unpleasant to the taste a platform of oak board well rammed with clay at 38 feet was made in the year 1798 which is now supplied by a land spring and the water is very good. This memorandum is made that care in future time may be taken lest the board may rot and the whole might fall with a terrible crash and some person might be endangered. … ..(unreadable)
it has been filled up to the surface from the planking and another
well made.
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