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Norfolk - Horsham St. Faith's

Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, 1883, pp. 354-355.

HORSHAM ST. FAITH'S (better known as ST. FAITH'S) is a parish and head of a union, 4½ miles north from Norwich station, 7 south from Aylsham and 118½ from London, in the Southern division of the county, Taverham hundred, Norwich county court district, rural deanery of Taverham and archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich. NEWTON ST. FAITH'S is a mile further north, on the direct road to Aylsham from Norwich. The church of St. Mary the virgin is an old Gothic building of flint with stone dressings, and consists of chancel, nave, and aisles with high embattled tower and 6 bells: it was restored in 1874, at a cost of over £3,000, Miss Twining giving above £1,000, and the remainder was made up by subscription: there is a beautiful eastern stained window to the Twining family, and mediæval pulpit with painted panels; also an ancient and handsome font and screen. The register dates from the year 1620. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £101, in the gift of Viscount Ranelagh, and held since 1863 by the Rev. Josiah Descarrieres Ballance M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, who is also vicar of and resides at Horsford. A parsonage house was erected in 1866, at an expense of £1,000, towards which Miss Twining and friends of London (formerly of this parish) gave £300, and the remainder was made up by subscription, aided by a grant from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Wesleyans have a chapel here, and also one at Newton St. Faith's. Here was a Benedictine priory, founded in 1105, and a hospital of Knights-Templars: it formerly had a market, which is obsolete. Horsehair is manufactured here. Viscount Ranelagh is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is mixed; subsoil marl and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and hay. The area, including Newton St. Faith's, is 2,340 acres; rateable value £5,254; and the population in 1881 was 1,082.

Parish Clerk,

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POST & MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank.—Thomas Fox, receiver. Letters arrive by mail from Norwich at 4.30 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m.

INSURANCE AGENT.—Norwich Union Fire, S. J. S. Carman, Lower Close, Norwich

Horstead with Stanninghall

Clerk to the Guardians,

Relieving, Vaccination & School Inquiry Officers, Eastern district,

Western district,

Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Frettenham district,

Norwich district,

St. Faith's district,

Great Weston district,

Great Witchingham district,

Superintendent Registrar,

Registrar of Births & Deaths, St. Faith's sub-district,

Sprowston sub-district,

Registrar of Marriages,

Workhouse,

RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY.

Clerk, George R. Cooke, Norwich
Medical Officer of Health, Shephard Thomas Taylor M.B. Norwich
Inspector of Nuisances, John Dunt, Great Witchingham

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT.

Clerk, George R. Cooke, Norwich
Treasurer, William Birkbeck, Thorpe, Norwich
School Attendance Officers, John Dunt, Great Witchingham

PUBLIC OFFICER.

Veterinary Inspector for the Hundred of Taverham, Edmund Baker; John Frost, assistant
National School, Miss Packham, mistress

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