Church and Chapel

Like many English villages, Forncett has a number of churches.

The two parish churches are St Peter's and St Mary's. For much of their history both parishes shared the same rector. Then in 1846 they were legally separated, and each church had its own parish priest, until 1902 when the parishes were reunited. The rectors of Forncett were important members of the community and some of them had very significant influences in the parishes that are still apparent today.

St Edmund's at Forncett End - daughter church of St Peter's - was built in 1904 to serve the then thriving hamlet of Forncett End.

The Baptist Tabernacle Chapel at Forncett End was established in 1754 as part of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion and became General Baptist in the early nineteenth century. It had an attached burial yard. In the 1960s it was closed and bought by a local farmer, to be used as a grain store. The members were then taken on by the Particular Baptist Chapel at Carleton Rode.

Forncett St Peter Methodist Church at Forncett End was established as a 'Ranters' Chapel' in 1835. The present building for the Primitive Methodists was erected in 1865 and became part of the Wymondham & Attleborough Circuit, which has recently become amalagamated with the Norwich Group. There is an attached burial ground.

Forncett St Mary Primitive Methodist Chapel was established in the nineteenth century by John Ludkin who lived at Hill Farm in Cheney's Lane.