Early photographs of the village show that the house called 'The Old Anchor of Hope' by the river Bure was once a pub.
[6] The other stones commemorate local benefactors John Wright and Phillip Sewell, of Dudwick Park, Buxton.
The burial ground was partially destroyed in 1984, when a large part was bulldozed by contractors without prior warning or permission .
[7] A map of the village dated 1885 indicates that the Friends at one point let the Meeting House to the Wesleyan Methodists, while retaining the burial ground.
Dr Peter Hansell, married to the Revd Anupama Kamble-Hansell, was instituted as Rector of the Bure Valley Benefice in September 2010 (his wife as Assistant Curate of Bure Valley /St Edmundsbury & Ipswich/ until her resignation in 2013), until his 30 August 2013 appointment to be Chaplain of Trent College, Long Eaton (Derby).
[12] Lammas Hall, a large building of uncertain date, lies in a small park, concealed from the road.
Among the notable inhabitants of the Hall was Wallace White Williamson, actuary, of Norwich Union,[13] who is buried at the church.
They were a family of doctors who had a private gate to the adjacent church through the brick wall which partly bounds the property.
The slightly eccentric looking house with Dutch gables on the Little Hautbois Road was once the home of Walter Rye, the historian, pioneer of cross-country running and one-time mayor of Norwich.
Rye bought what was at that time called Rectory Cottage, and extended it, incorporating a former schoolroom as a large parlour.
The stained glass roundels containing the arms of every former Lord of the Manor of Lamas, now in the church, were originally created for this house.
[14] William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, 1845 says of Lamas:[15] LAMMAS, a pleasant village on the east bank of the Bure, 4 miles (6.4 km) S.E.
W. H. Marsh, sen., the latter of whom is lord of the manor, and patron of the consolidated rectories of Lamas and Little Hautboys, valued in the King's Book at £7, and enjoyed by the Rev.