Horning No. 1 / Holme / Horningham / Hulme

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "King Canute, the Dane, founded and endowed at Holm an abbey of Benedictine monks before 1020. [...] From an old manuscript in the college of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, wrote by William Botoner, alias Worceter, gentleman, who lived in the reign of Edward IV. and in the family of Sir John Falstolf at Castre in Norfolk, and was one of his executors; many curious accounts relating to this monastery, I have transcribed. The abbey church, from the east window, to the west door, together with the choir, was (as he expresses it) De gradibus meis, Anglice Steppys, 148.—The breadth of the choir and presbytery 17 gradus. The breadth of the south isle of this church, which was built by Sir John Fastolf, [...] 11 gradus, and the length of it from east to west, 58 gradus; this last appears to have been a beautiful pile, built of, and vaulted with, free-stone, and had 7 large windows to the south The length of the north isle was 68 gradus, the breadth 12 gradus. The length of the choir and stalls, 24 gradus. The length of the high altar was 17 of Botoner's spans, and that of the south isle, 5; the space of the bell tower that stood in the midst of the church was 22 feet." Reported as having falling into disrepair around the mid-16th century; now in ruins]. [cf. Index entry for Horning No.2 for the parish church].