Hainford / Hamford / Hamforda / Hayneford / Haynford

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the new church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/319025] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - west tower

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Serving as a mortuary chapel only, the remainder ruinated when a new church built nearer the village in 1840"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 September 1965 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hainford All Saints church tower ruin [5028] 1965-09-18.jpg] [accessed 15 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west tower

Scene Description: ruins of the old church in 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/319030] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19152HAI

Church/Chapel: Old Parish Church of All Saints [in ruins]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Old Church Road, Hainford, Norfolk NR10 3BG

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A140, S of Hevingham, 10 km N of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Taverham

Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1965

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There is an entry for Hainford [variant spelling] in the Domesday book [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2218/hainford/] [accessed 15 April 2014], but it mentions neither church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints [...] Rectors. In the 25th of Edward I [i.e., 1297] Mr. Thomas de Kerdeston, conveyed his right of patronage, to William Roselyn." Knott (2009) informs: "After the old church was abandoned, its graveyard remained in use, and does so to this day. What we were looking at was obviously a Victorian mortuary chapel, a place where the coffin could rest and the funeral be celebrated on site, without need for the deceased to be brought from the new church for burial. Today, the chapel is also in ruins, and the entire structure is surrounded by high chain link fencing to keep people out".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.728244, 1.300249

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 43′ 41.68″ N, 1° 18′ 0.89″ E

UTM: 31U 385219 5843396

REFERENCES

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