Algars Thorp / Algars Thorpe / Algarthorp / Algeresthorp / Algerysthorp

INFORMATION

FontID: 18391ALG
Church/Chapel: Chapel [parochial] of St. Mary Magdalen [demolished]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located near Great Melton [cf. FontNotes] [NB: not to be mistaken with Algarthorpe, parish of Basford, Notts., also a disappeared hamlet]
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Humble-Yard
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "A[lgar's-Thorp] Is a hamlet to Great-Melton; it had a chapel, formerly parochial dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, but now long since demolished; it stood in a close called Maudlin close; Norwich Domesday says, that then the rectors of Melton St. Mary and All-Saints took all the profits belonging to the chapel, for which they were obliged at their charge to find a chaplain to serve in it; it had baptism, burial, and all signs of a mother church, and seven parishioners and their families; it is still called Thorp hamlet. In 1476, it was perpetually united to Melton All-Saints, though the chapel continued in use till the Dissolution. in the Conqueror's survey [i.e., Domesday, 1086] it is not named, being then part of Melton, which was given soon after to one Algar, from whom it took is name." [NB: we have no information on the font of the parochial chapel here]

REFERENCES

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