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English: St Margaret's church. Viewed from Holt Road. St Margaret's church > 840876 - 842728 - 842729 was rebuilt and added on to several times with some additions such as the north and south transepts never having reached completion. The probably most notable features are the image niches with figures retaining some of their original colour, beneath the pedestals, high up in the arcade > 842730. The font > 842742 is one of only 40-odd existing Seven Sacrament fonts (so-called because its panels depict the seven sacraments); there are a number of brasses > 842731 - 842734 and carved bench ends depicting figures > 842741 animals > 842738 and a mermaid > 842737. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cley/cley.htm Present-day Cley is not in the same location as the medieval village of Cley used to be. This was located south of St Margaret's church > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309410 and had a busy harbour, which was ruined by embanking in the 1640s by Sir Henry Calthorpe. A fire had already encouraged relocation in 1612. When Thomas Telford had been called in, in 1822, to advise on the problem of silting the Cley channel, his advice was ignored and the once busy port is now history. Many of the houses and cottages that line the narrow High Street (A149) through the village are built from flint and brick and date from the 17th and 18th centuries.