Barton Bendish St Mary and All Saints Norfolk Family History Guide
Barton Bendish St Mary and All Saints is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Norfolk, created before 1845 from Barton Bendish St Mary Ancient Parish and Barton Bendish All Saints Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Eastmore.
Alternative names:
- Barton Bendish St Mary
- Barton Bendish St Mary with All Saints
- Barton Bendish All Saints
Parish church: St. Mary and All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1726
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1691
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Barton Bendish St Andrew
- Marham
- Shouldham
- Fincham
- Beachamwell St Mary with St John
- Caldecote
- Boughton
- Oxborough
- Beachamwell All Saints with Shingham
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BARTON-BENDISH, a parish, in the union of Downham, hundred of Clackclose, W. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (N. by E.) from Stoke-Ferry; containing 455 inhabitants.
This place derives the affix to its name from a dyke called Bendish, constructed here by the Saxons as a boundary line to the hundred; it formerly consisted of the three parishes of St. Andrew, St. Mary, and All Saints, the two latter of which have been consolidated. The whole comprises 4126a. 24p., whereof 3316 acres are arable, 450 meadow and pasture, and the remainder fen and waste.
The living of St. Andrew’s is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £14, with a net income of £260, and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes were commuted in 1777 for 308 acres of land, and the glebe comprises 26 acres. The church is a handsome structure in the early and later English styles, with a square embattled tower, and a south porch in the Norman style.
The livings of St. Mary’s and All Saints’ form a rectory, valued at £11, with a net income of £300, and in the gift of Sir H. Berney, Bart.: the tithes were commuted for 320 acres of land, and the glebe comprises 10 acres, with a house. The church of St. Mary is chiefly in the early English style, with a small belfry, the tower having fallen in the reign of Anne: of the church of All Saints there are no remains.
In the hamlet of Eastmore was anciently a chapel, dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Norfolk
- Civil Registration District: Downham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk
- Diocese: Norwich
- Rural Deanery: Fincham
- Poor Law Union: Downham
- Hundred: Clackclose
- Province: Canterbury