Description
Cringleford, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the river Yare, 3 miles SW from Norwich, which is its nearest railway station. Post town, Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Eaton. Acreage, 1006 ; population, 229. There was anciently a pilgrims' chapel. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £150. Patrons, the trustees of St Giles' Hospital, Norwich. The church is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style; comprises nave, chancel, and porch, with square tower; and contains a fine carved font.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
