Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Sir William Calthorpe KB- (1410-1494) knight and High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, born in Burnham Thorpe. Reverend Edmund Nelson - (1722-1802) clergyman, Rector of Burnham Thorpe from 1755. Catherine Suckling - (1725-1767) mother of Horatio Nelson, lived in Burnham Thorpe.
St Margaret's Church. The construction of St Margaret's Church) in 1101 is the point at which King's Lynn first came into existence in terms of how it is now recognised. Commissioned by the Bishop of Norwich, Herbert de Losinga, at the request of the townspeople 'in honour of the Holy Mary Magdalene and St Margaret and all holy virgins', the church is one of the town's most dominating landmar
He was the son of Thomas Thursby (d.1510 [1]), merchant, three times Mayor of King's Lynn and the founder and benefactor of Thoresby College. [2] [3] [4]The great wealth inherited to him by his father enabled him to amass large tracts of arable land, which he then enclosed, turning out the landless peasants who had hereto lived there.
In 1174, the founder's grandson, William d'Aubigny III, established a chapel [5] in the town dedicated to Becket with two monks from the priory as chaplains. Having served as a gild chapel, then a grammar school and later the town library, in 2022 Becket's Chapel l was purchased by Historic Norfolk [ 6 ] and, following a major restoration, is ...
founded 1153 by Geoffrey de Favarches (or the widow of Richoldis de Favarches) incorporating the Chapel of Our Lady of Walsingham (founded before 1066); dissolved 1538; granted to Thomas Sidney 1539/40; now in private ownership with public access Little Walsingham Priory [140] [141] [142
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
In 1832, Meade traveled across the Appalachian mountains for visitations in Kentucky and Tennessee. He also served as rector of Christ Church, Norfolk in 1834–1836, which may have prompted Meade to resign as rector of his home Cunningham Chapel parish (Rev. Stringfellow succeeded him for five years, followed by several longer-serving rectors ...
Thomas Methodist Episcopal Chapel, also known as Thomas Chapel and Thomas Chapel United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Thaxton, Bedford County, Virginia. It was built in 1844, and is a small, rectangular-plan, one-story, one-room, brick structure in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It measures 30 feet ...