South Walsham No. 2 / Walesham
Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - chancel
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Formerly had a thatched roof which was accidentally set alight, burning most of the church in 1827. The chancel has since been repaired, for use as a Sunday school for St Mary's"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 July 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/S Walsham St Laurence's chancel restored [1790] 1937-07-15.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: Walsham St Laurence's tower ruin in 1937 -- Photo caption: "Now collapsed, and east end of St Mary's church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 July 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/S Walsham St Laurence's tower ruin [1789] 1937-07-15.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: The ruined church of St. Laurence
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2007 by Evelyn Simak [whttp://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/584395] [accessed 22 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 19218WAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence [aka Lawrence] [disused church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: The Street, South Walsham, Norfolk NR13 6DQ
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 15 km from Norwich [St. Lawrwnce's shares the churchyard with St. Mary's]
Ecclesiastic Region: [iocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Walsham
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church Notes: The BBC News Nofolk (issue 3 October 2013) [www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-24378537] [accessed 22 May 2014] includes a report of stolen friezes from this church: "Heavy flint and stone decorative frieze works have been stolen from a medieval church tower in Norfolk. The frieze stones, dating from the 15th Century, were taken from St Lawrence's Church in South Walsham, near Acle. Several sandstone and flint blocks were prised out of a collapsed medieval tower wall in the church yard."
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for South Walsham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3613/south-walsham/] [accessed 22 May 2014], neither of which mention a church or cleric in it." Blomefield Writes: "In this town were two churches, one dedicated to St. Laurence, and was a rectory [...] Ralph Guader Earl of Norfolk, lord of the town, granted his right in the patronage of this church, to the abbot of Holm, but in the first year King Richard I [i.e., 1189] by a fine levied, Ralph the abbot released it to Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk, on his granting to the abbot a pension". Pevsner & Wilson (1997) report a font of 1832 in this church. [cf. Index entry for South Walsham No. 1 for the font in the adjacent Church of St. Mary]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.665675, 1.496718
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 56.43″ N, 1° 29′ 48.19″ E
UTM: 31U 398340 5836141
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997