Horsham St Faith
| Horsham St Faith | |
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 Horsham St Faith Village Sign | |
  Horsham St Faith Location within Norfolk | |
| OS grid reference | TG216149 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | NORWICH |
| Postcode district | NR10 |
| Dialling code | 01603 |
| UK Parliament | |
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Horsham St Faith is a village in the English county of Norfolk, within the civil parish of Horsham St Faith and Newton St Faith.
Horsham St Faith is located 8 miles (12.9 km) south of Aylsham and 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Norwich, along the course of the A140 and the River Hor.
History
[edit]Horsham St Faith's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for horse homestead with the honorific of Saint Faith added.[1]
In the Domesday Book, Horsham St Faith is listed as a settlement of 16 households in the hundred of Taverham. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of Robert Malet.[2]
Horsham St. Faith Priory was founded in the Benedictine Order in 1105 by Robert fitz Walter and his wife, Sybil. The monastery was dissolved in 1536.[3]
RAF Horsham St Faith was built in 1939 and was primarily used by the Royal Air Force as well as the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces. After the war, the airfield continued to be used by the Royal Air Force until it became Norwich Airport in 1968.[4]
Geography
[edit]The River Hor passes through the village as does the A140, between Needham Market and Cromer.
Church of St. Mary and St. Andrew
[edit]Horsham St Faith's church is jointly dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint Andrew and dates from the Twelfth Century. St. Mary's & St. Andrew's is located on Church Street and has been Grade I listed since 1961.[5]
The church was restored in the Victorian era but still hosts a rood screen with painted images of saints below as well as a pre-Reformation pulpit.[6]
Notable Residents
[edit]- Saint Robert Southwell- (1561-1595) Jesuit and English martyr, born in Horsham St Faith.
Governance
[edit]Horsham St Faith is part of the electoral ward of Spixworth with St. Faiths for local elections and is part of the district of Broadland.
The village's national constituency is Broadland and Fakenham which has been represented by the Conservative Party's Jerome Mayhew MP since 2019.
References
[edit]- ^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
- ^ "Horsham | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
- ^ "mnf8005 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
- ^ "mnf8137 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
- ^ "CHURCH OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN AND ST ANDREW, Horsham St. Faith and Newton St. Faith - 1372959 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
- ^ "Norfolk Churches". www.norfolkchurches.co.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
Further reading
[edit]- Horsham and Newton St Faith (Towns and Villages)
- The Priory of Horsham St Faith
- Drayton and St Faith Medical Practice Archived 10 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine history.
- Information on the Parish Church of St Mary and St Andrew Horsham St Faith Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine