Hempnall No. 2 / Hamehala / Hemehala

INFORMATION

FontID: 18400HEM
Church/Chapel: Ancient parochial Chapel of St. Andrew [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: [cf. Index entry for Hempnall No. 1]
Historical Region: Hundred of Depwade
Date: pre-1066?
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Blomefield (1805-1810) cites the Domesday survey (fol. 251) entry for "The Manor of Hemenhale [...] Belonged to Torn, a Dane at the Confessor's survey, had then three freemen, 41 bordars, (or copyholders,) and 54 villeins; it had one priest (or rector) and two churches, endowed with a carucate of land", and it went to Ralph Lord Bainard, a fellow invader of William, at the Conquest. Of the two churches reported in Domesday, the second church was "the ancient chapel of St. Andrew, which at the Conquest was parochial though dependent on the mother-church, is now used (as I am informed) for a repository for the stalls." [NB: we have no information on the font of this pre-Conquest church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 384128 5818022

REFERENCES

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