Little Pagrave / Pagrava / Pagrave Parva

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18455PAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel [manorial, then parochial] [disappeared]
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Sporle
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Greenhoe
Town/City Wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sporle_with_Palgrave
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, vol. 6: 122
  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 127-128 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78239] [accessed 9 May 2013]
  • Chambers, John, A General History of the County of Norfolk, intended to convey all the information of a Norfolk tour […], Norwich: J. Stacy, 1829, vol. 2: 667