Blunham - Church of St Edmund

St Edmund or St James church has two porches. The font by the door has a cover of dark wood and before the late 19th century baptisms were often conducted in houses or in the rectory and a specimen of the christening basin used for this purpose is in the piscina near the organ. To the west of the font is a painted wooden board bearing the 'Ten Commandments',  'The Lord's Prayer' and 'The Creed' for the use of the congregation. In the Chancel a fine tomb of Susanna Longueville shows in great detail the pattern of her dress. Susanna was the niece of the Earl of Kent, who fenced off part of the common land in the village to enhance the view from his house. The people, after meeting in the church in 1604 drove cattle through the fences, Thomas Reyner calling "now for King James and the commons of Blunham".

Grade I listed parish church