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Buckenham (Old) in Norfolk County England History and GeographyBUCKENHAM (OLD), a parish in the hundred of SHROPHAM, county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (S.S.E.) from Attleburgh, containing 1134 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the parishioners. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place of worship for Sandemanians. This was anciently a place of considerable importance, and is supposed to derive name either from Boccen, a beech tree, and Ham, a dwelling-place; or from an allusion to the bucks, or deer, that thronged the adjacent forests. A priory for Augustine canons was founded in honour of St. James the Apostle, by William D'Albini, Earl of Chichester, about the middle of the twelfth century: at the dissolution, the establishment consisted of a prior and eight canons, whose revenue was estimated at £131. 11. It was partly built with the ruins of an old castle in the vicinity, which was entirely demolished by Sir Philip Knyvett, whose ancestors had resided in it. A little southward from the site of this castle, which is still visible, stood a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, subsequently converted into a barn, to which purpose also the present parochial church was appropriated, soon after its desecration on being granted away as part of the possessions of the priory. Here were three guilds, dedicated respectively to St. Margaret, St. Peter, and St. Thomas the Martyr. There is a small fund for the instruction of children, besides some trifling benefactions for the poor. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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