The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a handsome Gothic structure, situated on the summit of an abrupt acclivity, commanding a very fine view of the surrounding country. It is said to have been built by John of Gaunt, whose arms appear in various parts of the walls. It contains many monumental inscriptions and brasses, among which is one to Thomas Wymes, who is represented in his winding-sheet. He caused the screens and roof to be painted with saints, martyrs, &c. Part of this work has lately been discovered, and is in good preservation. The fount has basso-relievos of the four emblems of the evangelists, the instruments of the Passion, and the arms of Gaunt. The interior of the church is very handsome; but is much injured in appearance by the irregularity of the pews, if not by the introduction of pews altogether. The benches, no doubt, were formerly much ornamented with carving, many rich specimens of which are remaining. The most beautiful of these have been collected, and with admirable taste arranged for a screen for the altar. The patronage of the living, which is a vicarage, is vested in the dean and chapter of Canterbury. Aylsham enjoys the advantage of a free-school. Archbishop Parker also founded two fellowships in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and appropriated them to this and Wymondham school. One of the scholars must be born in Aylsham; but it is requisite for the other to be educated only at the free-school there. Blickling is eleven miles from Cromer. Aylsham, by the direct road, is the same distance. EXCURSION TO BACTON, THROUGH MUNDESLEY, RETURNING BY PASTON, KNAPTON, AND TRUNCH. A pleasant excursion may be made to Bacton, a village twelve miles from Cromer, on the low road to Yarmouth, where the ruins of Bromholm Priory deserve attention. This priory was founded by William de Glanville, for Clugniac monks, as a cell to Castleacre Priory, in 1113, and dedicated to St. Andrew. Like many others, it owed much of its former wealth to fraud and superstition. A cross was here preserved, which was said to be made of the wood of that on which our Saviour suffered, and which was possessed of such virtues, that nineteen blind persons, it is gravely asserted, were restored to sight by it. At the dissolution it was granted, with the adjacent estate, to Sir Thomas Woodhouse, ancestor of the present nobleman of that name. The building, like that of almost every other in Norfolk, was chiefly of flint. The hand of time has been ruthless in its damages; a lofty pointed arch-gateway is the only part still entire, the walls being, in many places, only a few feet high.