Saxlingham Thorpe / Saiselingeham / Saisselingeham / Sasilingaham

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: remains of old St. Mary's ca. 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/saxlinghamthorpe/saxlinghamthorpe.htm] [accessed 25 April 2013]

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view of church exterior - west tower - southwest view

Scene Description: remains of old St. Mary's ca. 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/saxlinghamthorpe/saxlinghamthorpe.htm] [accessed 25 April 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: remains of old St. Mary's ca. 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/saxlinghamthorpe/saxlinghamthorpe.htm] [accessed 25 April 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: remains of old St. Mary's ca. 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/saxlinghamthorpe/saxlinghamthorpe.htm] [accessed 25 April 2013]

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view of church interior - north doorway

Scene Description: remains of old St. Mary's ca. 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/saxlinghamthorpe/saxlinghamthorpe.htm] [accessed 25 April 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15168SAX

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

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Plummer's Lane, Saxlingham Nethergate, Norfolk NR15 1TD

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 1 km S of Saxlingham Nethergate, 12 km S of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Henstede [aka Henstead]

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of this church remains

Church Notes: in ruins; nave and chancel probably 11thC-12thC, though the chancel is said to have been extendeed later; tower 16thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes on Saxlingham: "The town is commonly divided into two parts, called Nethergate, and Overgate, or Thorp; the manors were called Netherhall-Verdons, and Overhall or Thorphall, and have been united for some time past; to the former the advowson of Saxlingham-Nethergate belonged, and to the latter that of Saxlingham-Thorp. [...] The church of St. Mary of Saxlingham Thorp is now ruinated, the steeple and walls only standing; it stands thus in the Revision of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, made in 1630 [...] Saxlingham-Thorp is a rectory [...] in 1740, was consolidated to Nethergate." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Richard" as first recorded rector here, in 1307. White's Directory of 1845 reports: "an ivy-clad ruin, being dilapidated long before 1740, when the rectory […] was consolidated with that of Saxlingham-Nethergate." The ruins are noted and illustrated in Knott (2007): "A small church, as most are around here, it was abandoned in the late 17th century [...] It must have been restored after this for some use, possibly agricultural, because the brick buttresses on the south side are surely 18th century". [NB: the original church here may go back to the Domesday survey, but we have no information on the font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.521405, 1.286776

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 17.06″ N, 1° 17′ 12.4″ E

UTM: 31U 383762 5820412

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: 2013-04-25 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845