Shotesham No. 3 / Great Shotesham / High Shotesham / Scotesha / Scotesia / Scotessa / Scotessâ / Scotessam

INFORMATION

FontID: 18433SHO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Butolph [demolished]
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Location: Hollow Lane, Shotesham, Norfolk NR15 1UP [Grid Reference:TM 2396 9932]
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared church is near the crossing of Hollow Lane and Norwich Road
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Henstede [Henstead]
Century and Period: 11th century, Norman
Church Notes: only fragments of the west tower remain
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes in his entry for Shotesham: "it was in above twelve parts, at the Confessor's and Conqueror's surveys; it had four capital manors, four parish churches, two hamlets [...] Norwich Domesday tells us, that St. Mary, when a rectory, had a house and 20 acres of glebe, and paid 6d. synodals, and 6s. 8d. procurations, and when it became a vicarage it was valued with that of St. Botolph [...] The church of St. Butolph is now totally demolished, being pulled down at the Reformation; the ruins of the steeple show that it was square, the churchyard was ploughed up when I saw it; it abuts southward to a hollow way leading eastward over the river to High Shotesham church, being the very corner piece at the turn of that way. It was appropriated with St. Mary's to the priory of Pentney, and both became one vicarage, as is before observed, the whole glebe and house belonging to this church, (fn. 41) except Fisher's Croft, was reserved to the vicar. Norwich Domesday tells us, that there was a house and 30 acres of land." [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.54572, 1.30158
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 44.61″ N, 1° 18′ 5.67″ E

REFERENCES

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