Nick Groves

This is the result of my work into the phenomenon of 'shared churchyards' in East Anglia - where there are two (or, in one case, three) churches in the same churchyard. Although several villages have two or more churches, there are thirteen cases in Norfolk, three each in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and one each in Essex and Lincolnshire, where they are in the same enclosure. They are technically in contiguous churchyards with a common, but undefined, boundary.

Submitted as an MA dissertation to UEA in 1993, this is a retyped and slightly amended version. The title is taken from the (utterly baseless) legend that the two churches were built by two sisters who had fallen out. The 'good' sister's church is the one that still stands, the 'wicked' sister's church is the one in ruins. 

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St Lawrence (part-ruinous) and St Mary, South Walsham. The remains of St Lawrence's tower fell down in 1971.