The south transept of the parish church had a chantry chapel founded by William Hamelin in 1290, who gave land in Wymondham, Saxby and Thorp Edmer for a chaplain to celebrate mass in perpetuity on his behalf.

By 1553 the chantry was no longer in existence possibly as a result of the Reformation when saying masses for the departed was abolished.

In 1297, Sir John Hamelin held half of a knight's fee of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, brother of King Edward Longshanks, in Wymondham, and the other half was held by Sir William de Hamelin, by homage and suit of court.

[4] In the south transept of the church is a monument in the form of a large effigy of a knight, cross-legged, dating from the late 13th century; this was Sir John Hamelin who was supposedly a crusader on three occasions.

The Edmondthorpe and Wymondham railway station closed to passengers in 1959[8] though the line remained open for ironstone freight, and Queen Elizabeth journeyed along it in 1967.