NHER 4500 (Monument record) - Site of St John the Baptist's Chapel, Barton Bendish

Site of medieval chapel.
Southwest of Abbey Farm.
Suggested as St. John the Baptist's by R. R. Clarke (NCM)

For further discussion of chapel see (S1).

16 August 1979.
Site under crop, no visible traces.
It is probably this site that has given rise to the local story of an abbey, see for example, Abbey Farm.
E. Rose (NAU)

4 February 1983. Barton Bendish Fieldwalking Survey.
Chapel site and surrounding area walked. Poor conditions.
Chapel site shown by spread of building material, mostly mortared flint and few limestone chips, Context 1.
9 Thetford typeware, medieval unglazed, Glazed Grimston and post medieval sherds.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU) February 1983.

3 March 1987. Barton Bendish Fieldwalking Survey.
Further fieldwalking of chapel site, BB 659 to 660.
Contexts 2 and 3 in good conditions.
Roman sherds including Samian.
Thetford type ware.
Medieval sherds including Grimston and early medieval, glazed red earthenware.
See list in file, plot under NHER 23911.
Identified A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 20 August 1987.

Free chapel of Eastmore.
Listed in Valor Ecclesiaticus (1535).
Dedicated before 1514 and given to West Dereham Abbey (NHER 4396) by Bartholomew de Brancaster.
See (S2).
J. Allen (NLA), 3 July 2003.