The ruins of St Mary's Church, once serving the village of Eccles-next-the-Sea. Both the church and the village were engulfed by the sea and abandoned in the early 17th century, but the round west tower with its octagonal top remained standing until 1895, when it fell in a storm. The foundations of the building are usually concealed under sand, but are occasionally exposed by the tide. Burials in the old churchyard are also sometimes exposed, and various medieval objects have been found in the area.
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TG4128 D-Q,T-Y. |
| --- | Archive: Bolingbroke Collection. Plan (19th Nov 1893). |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 42 NW 1 [2]. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 453. |
| --- | Unpublished Report: Pestell, T. J. 1990. Archaeological Investigations on the Foreshore of Eccles Beach, Norfolk. A First Interim Report. |
| --- | Photograph: Ruins of St Marys Church, Eccles-next-the-Sea. Print. |
| --- | Photograph: 1991. Eccles Tower, St Mary's ruined Church. Print. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2012. Revealed - the secrets of Norfolk's lost villages. 18 August. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Lessingham. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Lessingham. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N. 1962. North-East Norfolk and Norwich. The Buildings of England. 1st Edition. p 125; Pl 3b. |
| <S1> | Publication: Brown, P (ed.). 1984. Domesday Book: Norfolk. Parts 1 and 2. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Nomina Villarum. |
| <S3> | Serial: Blomefield, F.. 1805-1810. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.. Volume Unknown. |
| <S5> | Unpublished Document: Stannard, D.. 1986. Biblography of References to Eccles Church. |
| <S6> | Article in Serial: Pestell, T.. [unknown]. Current Archaeology. |
| <S7> | Photograph: Various. |
| <S8> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1947. Eccles beach erosion brings ruined church to light. 17 March. |
| <S9> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1974. [Photograph of the ruins of St Mary's Church]. 7 November. |
| <S10> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1987. Discover a lost village. 28 August. |
| <S11> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1987. Photograph of the ruins of St Mary's Church. 6 February. |
| <S12> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1989. Where rhinos once roamed. 19 August. |
| <S13> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1990. Rediscovering a Norfolk village lost to the sea. 21 May. |
| <S14> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1991. Bones go after sea uncovers graveyard. 18 May. |
| <S15> | Serial: UEA. 1993. UEA News.. March. |
| <S16> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1995. Were villagers buried in the old tower's ruins?. 27 January. |
| <S17> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1995. The lonely sentine of the sea. 23 January. |
| <S18> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1995. Racing the tides. 21 August. |
| <S19> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1998. Second burial for a doomed village. 29 August. |
| <S20> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1999. Now we're under threat from media erosion. 1 February. |
| <S21> | Unpublished Document: W.H.Cooke. 1909. Eccles next the sea, Happisburgh, and the Erosion of the East Coast. Notes collected by W.H. Cooke.. |
| <S22> | Monograph: Batcock, N. 1991. The Ruined and Disused Churches of Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 51. Microfiche 5:G12. No 118; pp 53, 148. |
| <S23> | Unpublished Report: Pestell, T. J. 1993. Archaeological Investigations on the Foreshore of Eccles Beach, Norfolk. A Second Interim Report. |