Shouldham No. 2 / Sculdeham / Sculdham

INFORMATION

FontID: 18636SHO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NE of Downham
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Ely]
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Clackclose
Century and Period: 11th - 16th century, Medieval
Blomefield (1805-1810) remarks that the phrase "In alio Sculdeham", which appears in the Domesday entry that reports two churches here, "shows that here was Shouldham Magna and Parva". Of those two churches onely one remains now [cf. Index entry for the disappeared church at Shouldham No. 2]. Blomefield notes; "St. Margaret's Shouldham. The site of this church is at present unknown; it is probable that it fell about the dissolution of the priory: that it was standing in 1519, appears from the will of John Ryches, who bequeaths his body to be buried in the church of St. Margaret at Shuldham, dated 1st March, in the said year. [...] This church was also appropriated to the priory and convent, who received all the tithes great and small. Both the churches were served by one of their canons, or some stipendiary priest, till the Dissolution, when they came to the Crown". [NB: we have no information on the font from the disappeared church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.65185, 0.48447
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 6.66″ N, 0° 29′ 4.09″ E
UTM: 31U 329841 5836513

REFERENCES

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