The Church in the Forest

Stuck away in Thetford forest, is the tiny Catholic church of Our Lady of Consolation and St Stephen. It was built by the fabulously wealthy Mrs Lyne-Stephens in 1878. She lived at Lynford Hall, and, as Pevsner puts it, 'tired of travelling into Thetford' for Mass.

When she died, the estate was bought by an Anglican, who considered the church 'a terrible eyesore', and planted  screens of trees around it to hide it.