Record Details

NHER Number:17887
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of medieval chapel

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.

Images - none

Location

Parish:WARHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

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

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