Upton, Norfolk

Description
Upton, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 2 miles NNW of Acle station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Acle; money order and telegraph office, Acle. Acreage of the civil parish, with Fishley, 2171; population, 530; of the ecclesiastical parish, 512. There is a parish council for the civil parish of Upton-with-Fishley consisting of seven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £235 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The church is an interesting old building of flint and rubble in the Perpendicular style, containing a remarkable 14th-century font with elaborately carved shaft, representing the two sacraments, and large octagonal bowl with angels, contemporary instruments of music, and emblems of the four evangelists, the whole standing out upon three octagon steps, open quatrefoils dividing the upper and second step. The church possesses a 15th-century pulpit and base of a fine rood-screen with ancient paintings of St Augustine, St Jerome, St Gregory the Great, St Ambrose, St Helena, St Joanna of Valois, and St Agatha. The church has been restored. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.