HORSHAM (ST-FAITH), a parish in the hundred of
TAVERHAM, county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (N.byW.) from
Norwich, containing 735 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and dioceseof Norwich, endowed
with £400 royal bounty,.and £ 1200parliamentary grant.
Viscount Ranelagh was patron in 1812. A priory of
Black monks, dedicated to St. Faith, was founded here
in 1105, by Robert Fitzwalter and Sibell de Cayneto, his
wife; it was at first a cell to the abbey de Cenchis, in
Normandy: at the dissolution its revenue was estimated
at £193. 2. 3. Attached to this institution was
an hospital, formerly belonging .to the Knights of St.
John of Jerusalem.