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A fact from St James the Less, Pockthorpe appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 February 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the church of St James the Less, Pockthorpe, now the home of the Norwich Puppet Theatre, once contained a rood screen with portraits of saints painted in 1479?

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I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thank you for this useful article. I have reviewed it and found no issues.

I have added WikiProjects and templates to the talk page. I have added references and a Commons category to the article, plus the Churches in Norwich template. I have updated links clarifying the relationship between the former church and the current puppet company. I have re-jigged the Commons category and Wikidata page in the same way. I have also provided a photo and more details in the infobox.

I see that others have added more links so that you can expand this article - I look forward to seeing more information here. There is plenty to find in the existing references and links. Good luck.

Storye book (talk) 18:38, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Reviewer: AryKun (talk · contribs) 19:51, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay in starting this.
Made some minor c/e myself.
The lead doesn't mention when the church was started, just that it replaced an "earlier 11th- or 12th-century building". Done
Link "rectory" and "chancel" to Wikt. Done
"the level had more than doubled" What is this referring to? The value or the actual size of the church? Done
"in which was a chapel" to "which included a chapel" Done
"Norwich suburb" Can 16th century England truly bee said to have suburbs?

Done Mmm. The term is technically correct (it is used by historians). Sentence amended however.

"which churches ... [had] fallen" You can elide "churches" here too, it's already implied that we're referring to them Done
"Rev. Cook" I don't think we typically use religious titles past the initial introduction. Done
What's citing note 1 and why is it important to mention the architect? Also, why is Junior lowercase in "Joseph Stannard junior"? Done
"20th century - present" en-dash here. Done
"as the Night Shelter" to "as a Night Shelter" Done
Why is it considered at risk? Done
"14th/15th century" to "14th to 15th century" Done
Any reason you only mentioned the 20th century vicars in the table and not any from earlier?

1. The list of incumbents before 1900 is complex (the men has various titles, there are times when the parish was linked with other ones, there are gaps where the records are missing, the periods of a number of incumbencies are not known for certain, the sources disagree). 2. A complete list would be very long, as some incumbents were in post for a year or so. Amitchell125 (talk) 13:30, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The references all look reliable; will do spot-checks later. AryKun (talk) 19:55, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Spot-checks: Most of the sources are rather dated, and some from the 1800s especially so, but the history they're citing doesn't seem particularly controversial and I presume this reflects a lack of more recent sources that also include this level of detail. All sources checked verify the claims made.
- Blyth, G.K. (1842). The Norwich Guide. London: Josiah Fletcher.
- Blomefield, Francis (1805). An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk. Vol. 4. London.
- Knights, Emma (11 November 2010). "Celebrating the history of Norwich Puppet Theatre". Eastern Daily Press.
- "Fonds PD 11 - Parish Records of St James with Pockthorpe, Norwich". Norfolk Record Office.

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