CRESSINGHAM (GREAT), a parish in the southern division of the hundred of GREENHOE, county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Watton, containing 400 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, with the curacy of St. George, and the rectory of Bodney united, and a royal peculiar, in which the rector exercises jurisdiction, rated in the king's books at £17. 18. !£., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is composed of flint and freestone, with a tower at the west end, and is ornamented in many places with the letter M, surmounted by a crown, also an erect sword, with a crown on the point, supposed to be memorials of the victory of the patron saint j the nave and chancel are separated by a screen curiously painted and carved, behind which are six stalls, similar to those in collegiate churches. About a mile from the village, in a field called Stone-close, stood the parochial chapel of St. George, previously the chapel of a hermit, in right of which the rector holds a fair annually on the 12th of August, for horses and toys.