Ormesby St. Andrew / Ormesbei / Ormesbej

INFORMATION

FontID: 19239ORM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of East Flegg
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."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 411933 5836871

REFERENCES

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