ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



Archdeaconry of Norfolk 



Fyncham Deanery ... 23 rectories 5 vicarages i chapel 



Granewise „ .... 28 „ 14 „ 2 „ 3 chantries 



Hecham „ 



Reppes „ 



Waxton „ 



Brooke „ 



Depwade „ 



Humilyard „ 



Rockland „ 



Hingham „ 



Thetford „ 



Burnham „ 



The office of rural dean fell into abeyance about 1540 in Norfolk, according to Blomefield,^ 

 and was not revived until 1842, when Bishop Stanley reintroduced it into his diocese, appointing 

 in most cases two rural deans to each deanery. By that time a considerable change had been made 

 in the diocese, an Order in Council of the Ecclesiastical Commission of ig April, 1837,^ having 

 transferred part of the archdeaconry of Sudbury from the diocese of Norwich to that of Ely. Many 

 unions of parishes had also taken place, the diocesan having the privilege of granting a personal 

 union of parishes on account of the small extent and value of many benefices in the diocese.' The 

 abstracts of the census for iSii,* and of that for 1821,° state that the summary for the county of 

 Norfolk was collected from the registers of 691 parish churches. In the Clergy List of 1842 the 

 parishes are assigned thus : 



Archdeaconry of Norwich 



Deanery of Blofield containing 25 parishes 



Breckles „ 15 „ 



„ Brisley „ 24 „ 



Flegg „ 21 „ 



„ Holt „ 21 „ 



„ Ingworth „ 31 „ 



Deanery of Lynne containing 44 parishes 



Archdeaconry of Norfolk 



Deanery of Brooke containing 5 I parishes 



Deanery of Humbleyard containing 1 8 parishes 



The census for 1871 * states that with the exception of the parish of Emneth, part of the 

 parish of Brandon, and part of the ecclesiastical district of St. John, Little Ouse, which are in the 

 diocese of Ely, and part of Central Wingland, in the diocese of Lincoln, the county is in the 

 diocese of Norwich ; and that it contains parts of nine parishes which extend into the adjoining 

 counties, namely, Brandon, Mendham, Outwell, Rushford, St. Cuthbert (Thetford), St. Mary 

 (Thetford), Upwell, Wetney, and Central Wingland ; that the diocese of Norwich has a total 

 population of 668,123, containing' part of Cambridge, viz. the parishes of Outwell, Upwell and 

 Wetney ; the entire county of Norfolk with the exception of the parish of Emneth, part of the 

 parish of Brandon, and parts of the parishes of Feltwell and Kilgay, with Feltwell Anchor, formerly 

 extra-parochial, and part of Central Wingland, formerly extra parochial ; also the entire county of 

 Suffolk except the deaneries of Blackburn, Thedwaster, and Thingoe, and parts of the deaneries of 

 Clare, Fordham, and Sudbury. It will thus be seen that by the arrangement of 1837 the diocese 

 covers, roughly speaking, the counties of Norfolk and East Suffolk. It contains an area exceeded 

 only by that of St. David's, and has a number of clergy surpassed only by that of London. The 

 Ciergy List for that year shows a considerable number of changes. 



' Vol. iii, 447. 



' Abstract of Census, I 8 1 I , xxi. 

 ^Digest of Engl. Census for 187 1. 

 General), 177. 

 2 



' Eccl. Com. Orders in Council, i, 48. 

 * p. 103. ' p. 82. 



Compiled from Official Returns (authorized by the Registrar 



' Ibid. p. 57. 



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