Little Hautbois / Hobbies Parva / Hobbis / Hobuisse / Hobuist

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18472HAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Local info: in ruins in the 15thC after parish merge with Lamas
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in Broadland, near Lamas
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham
Additional Comments: name pronounced "Hobbis"
Font Notes:
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church was dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin [...]; the church was in use in 1531, but is now totally dilapidated; [...] it stood by the road side, about a fur long on the left hand, after you have passed Mayton bridge from Fretenham; it was not very small, the ruins are covered with earth, but are very easy to be traced"; there is no date given for the foundation of the church in Blomefield (ibid.), and there is no mention of a church in the Domesday entry reproduced in it, but it names "Gyles Jerge of Hardingham" as first recorded rector, in 1349, and adds: "1435, Thomas Grey, by lapse. He was the last rector, for when he voided it, it was consolidated to Lammas, and so remains". White's Gazetteer of 1845 notes: "The Church (St. Mary,) stood near the Bure, but no vestiges of it are now extant", and the entry in Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of 1870-1872 reads: "The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Lammas, in the diocese of Norwich. There is no church."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 387509 5845763

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 295-296 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78253] [accessed 23 May 2013]
  • White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845, [transcribed in www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/h/hautbois_little/white1845.shtml [accessed 23 May 2013]]
  • Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, [transcribed in www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20984 [accessed 23 May 2013]]