Ormesby St. Peter / Ormesbei / Ormesbej
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Scene Description: Photo caption: "The site of St Peter is still visible from the air, as is shown on the image kindly lent by Robert Lambert below. The church is in the bottom left-hand quarter of the photograph - the ghost of the round tower shows up particularly well."
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Image Source: aerial photograph by Robert Lambert in Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ormesbypeter/ormesbypeter.htm] [accessed 29 May 2014]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the site of the ruins of St. Peter's
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ormesbypeter/ormesbypeter.htm] [accessed 29 May 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19238ORM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: [Grid Reference:TG 4911 1467]
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: The disappeared church was located between Ormesby St. Margaret and Ormesby St. Michael
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of East Flegg
Church Notes: round-tower church
There are three entries for Ormesby [St. Margaret and St. Michael] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/ormesby-st-margaret-and-st-michael/] [accessed 29 May 2014], but neither of them mentions a church or cleric in it, Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In this town there were four churches and rectories, all in the gift of the Crown, St. Margaret, St. Michael, St. Peter, and St. Andrew; and Richard de Bellofago, or Beaufoe was presented to them, by King Henry I [...] and the said King granted him also the patronage of the said churches, all which he gave with the consent of Adam de Beaufoe, to build the hospital of St. Paul's in Norwich, to which they were appropriated and confirmed by John de Grey Bishop of Norwich. [...] St. Peter's and St. Andrew's churches are in ruins; it seems as if they were used in 1591, when on August 1, William Carew, vicar, obtained a Dispensation from the Bishop, that he might serve one week in the principal and mother church of Ormesby, and the next week in any of the other, &c. but that the parishioners should not oblige him on any Sunday or Festival, to serve in more than one church in the said town."
Knott (2006) writes: "There was once a third Ormesby, St Peter, the site of which is still identifiable on some allotments not far off. The hedge to the adjacent field kinks round in what can only be described as a churchyard shape."
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810