Egmere / Edgamer / Edgamera {Domesday] / Egemere [Domesday] / Eggemere / Estgamera [disappeared?]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: showing the remains of the tower and the little part of the north wall of the nave with the north entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/egmere/egmere.htm] [accessed 11 December 2013]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: only part of the west tower and a little of the south wall of the nave remain

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/egmere/egmere.htm] [accessed 11 December 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the chancel and most of the nave are now gone

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/egmere/egmere.htm] [accessed 11 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: The village of Egmere disappeared in the 16th century

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 March 2010 by Adrian S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2231758] [accessed 11 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the tower arch below the outline of the roof of the nave; on the left the south entranceway in the small part of the south wall that remains

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/egmere/egmere.htm] [accessed 11 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15041EGM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund [in ruins]

Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]

Church Location: [Egmere] Walsingham, Norfolk NR22 6BT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: The village of Egmere disappeared in the 16thC; the ruins of the church are located near North Barsham and Waterden, off (W) the Fakenham to Wells road, 5 km W of Walsingham

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]

Historical Region: Hundred of North Greehow

Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]

Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Egmere [variant spellings in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF8937/egmere/] [accessed 11 December 2013], but there is no mention of a church or cleric in any of them. Blomefield (1805-1810) reports on a transaction related to a 'moiety' of this church in 1277, and at the head of the list of rectors here, adds: "In 1299, Roger de Snetesham was instituted to a mediety, presented by the Bishop of Norwich". The church was already in ruins by Blomefield's time: "The Church is a rectory [...] and is now demolished, and the inhabitants go to the church of Waterden, and are there buried, &c. Sir Nicholas Bacon is said to have profaned it, and turned it into a barn. Here were anciently two medieties". [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.899946, 0.81806

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 59.81″ N, 0° 49′ 5.02″ E

UTM: 31U 353241 5863370

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2013-12-11 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.