Tivetshall St. Mary / Tifteshale / Tisteshale / Titshall / Tittleshall-cum-Godwick / Tiveteshala / Totessala / Totsall

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tivetshallmary/tivetshallmary.htm] [accessed 12 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tivetshallmary/tivetshallmary.htm] [accessed 12 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tivetshallmary/tivetshallmary.htm] [accessed 12 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tivetshallmary/tivetshallmary.htm] [accessed 12 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the ruins of St. Mary's -- Photo caption: "The 14c tower collapsed into the nave about the middle of the 20c"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 May 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Tivetshall St Mary's church ruin from SE [6087] 1980-05-14.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tivetshallmary/tivetshallmary.htm] [accessed 12 February 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tivetshallmary/tivetshallmary.htm] [accessed 12 February 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19082TIV

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [in ruins]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk NR15 2BQ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located near Tivetshall St. Margaret [cd. Index entry], 10 km NNE of Diss

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]

Historical Region: Hundred of Diss

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his information and photographs of this church; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1980

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There are four entries for Tivetshall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/tivetshall-st-margaret-and-st-mary/] [accessed 12 February 2014], with two churches reported in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "T[itshall] Is variously written in different ages, first, Totessala, or Tiveteshall, after Tifteshale, now Titshall [...] In the Confessor's time [i.e., Edward the Confessor (1003 or 1005-1066)] there were two churches [...] Here are two Churches, about a mile distant from each other; the mother church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, the other is a parochial chapel, whose patroness is St. Margaret, both of ancient foundation, even before the Conqueror. It was always a single institution, appendant to the manor, as it still remains, though the parishes are separate [...] The parochial chapel of St. Margaret acknowledges no visitatorial power but that of the Bishop only, for it pays the archdeacon no procurations; but as much again as the mother church does to the Bishop for synodals. The nave and south porch are leaded, the chancel thatched; the tower is square, and hath five bells in it". Knott (2006) writes: "St Mary obviously paled in comparison with St Margaret, one of Cautley's favourite churches. And then, in 1949, St Mary paid for the lack of 19th century attention. An early jet plane broke the sound barrier while flying low above this parish, and the sonic boom sent a tremor through the tower of St Mary, causing it to collapse into the nave. The two Tivetshall churches sit out in the fields on opposite sides of this rambling, intensely agricultural parish. To look at St Mary now, it is hard to conceive that it was still in use until less than half a century ago, the destruction was so complete. If it was not for the tracery of the great east window, you might not even recognise it as a church."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.427173, 1.184124

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25′ 37.82″ N, 1° 11′ 2.84″ E

UTM: 31U 376534 5810102

REFERENCES

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2014-02-12 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.