Norfolk: Pulham St Mary the Virgin

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Pulham St Mary the Virgin is about 7 miles E.N.E. of Diss.
It is usually known as Pulham St Mary.
See also Pulham St Mary Magdalen (Pulham Market).

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

The parish is in the deanery of Redenhall, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Mary the Virgin: Description, services, etc.
Church of St Mary the Virgin: Pictures of the church.
Huggins, John: The Church of Pulham St Mary the Virgin.
[1980s]

Church Records

Campling, Arthur: Index of Baptisms: Pulham St Mary the Virgin, 1539-1754.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
Campling, Arthur: Index of Marriages: Pulham St Mary the Virgin, 1539-1754.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
Campling, Arthur: Index of Burials: Pulham St Mary the Virgin, 1540-1607.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Pulham St Mary was in Depwade Registration District.

Description and Travel

Pulham St Mary Village Pages: History, description, church, school, organisations, etc.

Gazetteers and Directories

Pulham St Mary is in Earsham hundred.

1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
1850: Hunt's Directory of East Norfolk with Part of Suffolk
1854: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
1883: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
1883: Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk
1997: Pulham St Mary Directory: A guide to the village, its services and businesses, people, organizations, charities and history.
[Pulham St Mary Parish Council, 32 pp., 1997]

History

Pulham Airship Station: Description, pictures, etc.
Kinsey, Gordon: Pulham Pigs: the history of an airship station.
This is the history of the airship station; the village is famed for its association with airships (which were known as Pulham Pigs) and which feature on the village sign. The Airship R34 completed the historic first two way crossing of the Atlantic by air when it landed here on the return leg.
[ISBN 0861380509, Terence Dalton Ltd, 1988]
Pulham Market Society: The Story of Pulham and its Airship.
[Pulham Market, Pulham Market Society, 1989]

Land and Property

Inclosure: See Pulham St Mary Magdalen (Pulham Market)

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Depwade Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Pulham St Mary the Virgin became part of the Depwade Union, and the workhouse was at Pulham St Mary Magdalen (Pulham Market).

Schools

Clutten, Hilary: School's Out - a history of Pennoyer's School and its benefactor William Pennoyer.
The history of the school and the village; the school building includes the oldest free-standing guild chapel in Norfolk (built in 1402); the school was endowed by William Pennoyer in the 1600s who also endowed what was to become Harvard University where the Pennoyer Scholarship is the oldest hereditary scholarship in the USA and where the school's bell now hangs.
[ISBN 0951880918, 1996]
Pennoyer Scholarships: History, description, etc.
Heywood, Stephen: Pennoyer's School, Pulham St Mary, Norfolk, the architectural and historic importance of the medieval guild chapel of St James.
[Norwich, Norfolk County Council, 1997]
(No author): The Chapel of the Gild of St James and Pennoyer's School.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.30, 1952]

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