Little Pagrave / Pagrava / Pagrave Parva

INFORMATION

FontID: 18455PAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Chapel [manorial, then parochial] [disappeared]
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located near Sporle
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Greenhoe
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes in his entry for Little Pagrave: "Hath been for many ages in the family, who took their name from this lordship and seat of theirs, to which one of the family built a Chapel, [...] and fixed the tithes of his manor to it, so that it became parochial, and was a long time independent of Sporle, till the prior there obtained its advowson, and got it consolidated to Sporle; though the first joint presentation that I have seen was in 1581. [...] the chapel hath been many years dilapidated, but its site is well known." The chapel here is mentioned in Armstrong (1781), probably afte Blomefield's edition of 1739. Chambers (1829) also mentions this chapel, after Blomefield. [NB: if the chapel had been parochial it probably had a font, but we have no information on it].

REFERENCES

Armstrong, Mostyn John, History and antiquities of the County of Norfolk [...] containing [...], Norwich: printed by J. Crouse, for M. Booth, Bookseller, 1781
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Chambers, John, A General History of the County of Norfolk, intended to convey all the information of a Norfolk tour […], Norwich: J. Stacy, 1829