NHER 17028 (Monument record) - Possible site of medieval chapel

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Summary

The site of St James' medieval chapel, washed away in floods. The exact location of where the chapel stood is the subject of some discussion.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF50NW
Civil Parish MARSHLAND ST. JAMES, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Site of St. James's Chapel? Washed away in floods.
Bryant's 1826 map (S5) places this on site of modern church, NHER 2391.

But Dugdale's 1662 Map of Marshland (S2) (original in Tom Martin's Church Notes (S3), copy in Blomefield (S4)), though not always easy to relate to modern maps, seems to place this chapel here.

It is perhaps significant that a cemetery is still marked at this spot, but note methodist chapel to north.

E. Rose and A. Rogerson (NAU), 16 February 1981.

Blomefield's (S4) copy of Dugdale's map (S2) is wrong, and Tom Martin's (S3) may not be the original, for R. Silvester (NAU) reports seeing the original in Wisbech Museum. This does not show a church here, but instead a cross, which is clearly a vague siting for Tom Hickathrift's Candlestick, NHER 2390.
Blomefield (S4) has misinterpreted the cross symbol.
R. Silvester and E. Rose (NAU), 18 August 1983.

1981.
A. Rogerson visited site but found no trace of a church or finds.

  • <S1> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S2> Map: Dugdale. 1662. Map of the Fens.
  • <S3> Documentary Source: Martin, T. c. 1700-1799. Collections of Church Notes. Norfolk Records Office. Walter Rye Collection. RYE 17.. c. 1740.
  • <S4> Serial: Blomefield, F.. 1805-1810. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.. Volume Unknown.
  • <S5> Map: Bryant, A.. 1826. Bryant's Map of Norfolk.

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Record last edited

Jun 14 2026 6:33PM

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