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| navigate by keyword : 11th 12th appropriated benedictine bigod bungay castle century church churchyard countess cross domesday established existing gundreda holy hugh late marys mentioned norfolk priory revenues saxon site some suffolk survey that thought which widow |
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| It is thought that the Church of the Holy Cross, mentioned in the 11th century Domesday survey, was a Saxon church on the some site as the existing St. Mary`s. It was appropriated to the revenues of a Benedictine Priory which Gundreda, Countess of Norfolk, and widow of Hugh Bigod, of Bungay Castle, established in the churchyard in the late 12th century. |
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