NHER 17887 (Monument record) - Site of medieval chapel

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Summary

A chapel is recorded in Warham in Blomefield's History of Norfolk written between 1805 and 1810. The exact location of the chapel is unknown.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	WARHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

'In this town was also (besides the three parish churches) a chapel with its cemetery or yard which before the Dissolution belonged to the nunnery of Bradholm and being ruinous was granted June 11 in the 5th of Elizabeth to Cecilia Pykerell of Norwich…' (S1).
Site not known, but note finds of human skeletal remains at sites NHER 1836 (suggested as site of St Mary the Virgin) and NHER 1838.
E. Rose (NAU), 27 June 1982.

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF4613 Serial: Blomefield, F.. 1808. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.. Vol IX. p 266.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

CHAPEL (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)

Object Types (0)

Related NHER Records (0)

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Warham (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jan 28 2011 2:01PM