Green Plaque - Chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury - Wymondham, Norfolk - Blue Plaques on Waymarking.com

A green plaque on the side of the Chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury, Church Street, Wymondham.

The plaque reads -
Chapel of
St. Thomas a Becket

Founded 1174 by William D'Albini,
2nd Earl of Arundel. Present building
c.1400, restored 1870's.
After Reformation became the
Grammar School.

"In the days when the Abbey church was the batleground of the political infighting between town and Church, there was a chapel of ease to it up on the high street, the chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury. This chapel fell into disuse at the Reformation, but remarkably it still exists, and is still in use. For many years it was a grammar school, and then in the 1870s it was renovated as a public hall. Today, it is Wymondham's branch library.

The road beside it is called Church Street, a memory of the past. What you see today is pretty much all of the 14th century, although the actual foundation was a couple of centuries earlier, shortly after the Saint's martyrdom."

SOURCE - (visit link)

Blue Plaque managing agency: Wymondham Heritage Society Individual Recognized: Chapel of St Thomas a Becket Physical Address: St Thomas a-Becket's Chapel Church Street Wymondham, Norfolk England Web Address: [Web Link]

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