Setchey / Magna Seche / Sechey Magna / Setch / Setche Magna / Setchey Magna
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the new church/chapel of 1844, now a private dwelling
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph August 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/setchey/setchey.htm] [accessed 27 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 18824SET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: [Parish Church? / Chapel?] [destroyed]
Church Location: Lynn Road, (A10), Setchey, Norfolk
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located "on the great road from London to Lynn" (Blomfield (1805-1810)); 6-7 km S of King's Lynn
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Freebridge
Century and Period: Medieval
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There is no entry for this place in the Domesday survey. Blomefield (1805-1810) identifies "Sechey Magna" as one of "two hamlets belonging to North Rungton: Setche Magna is on the great road from London to Lynn [...] These two hamlets had their chapels, and they were both standing in 1528." White's Directory of 1883 [transcribed in www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/s/setchey/white1883.shtml [accessed 27 November 2013] notes: "Setch had a church standing in 1528, though no traces of it now remain; but here is a small chapel-of-ease, erected in 1844 by Daniel Gurney, Esq., F.S.A., and others, and seating 150 persons. The parish maintains its poor separately, though it is ecclesiastically united with North Runcton". Knott (2005) notes: "St Mary is a private house today, separated from its former graveyard by a bleak, high fence. The church was built in 1844". [NB: it is not clear from the consulted sources if the old church/chapel had full sacramental functions that included baptism].