Binham / Binneham
Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
Results: 33 records
B01: sacrament - baptism
Scene Description: E side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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B02: sacrament - holy orders
Scene Description: SE side of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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B03: sacrament - eucharist
Scene Description: S side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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B04: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
Scene Description: SW side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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B05: sacrament - extreme unction
Scene Description: W side of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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B06: sacrament - confirmation
Scene Description: NW side of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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B07: sacrament - penance
Scene Description: N side of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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B08: sacrament - marriage
Scene Description: NE side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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BU01: symbol - candle - held by angel
Scene Description: E side of underbowl, under baptism scene
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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BU02: symbol - chrismatory - held by angel
Scene Description: SE side of the underbowl, under holy orders scene
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Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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BU03: symbol - chalice - held by angel
Scene Description: S side of the underbowl, under Eucharist scene
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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BU04: symbol - circlet - held by angel
![[cf. Font notes] SW side of the underbowl, under the Baptism of Christ scene](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070406062_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes] SW side of the underbowl, under the Baptism of Christ scene
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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BU05: symbol - shroud? - held by angel
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes] -- W side of the underbowl, under the Extreme Unction scene
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Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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BU06: symbol - crown - held by angel
Scene Description: NW side of the underbowl, under Confirmation scene
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Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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BU07: symbol - staff or scourge - held by angel
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes] -- N side of the underbowl, under Penance scene
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Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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BU08: symbol - musical instrument - fretted - held by angel
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes] -- NE side of the underbowl, under Marriage scene
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 6 June 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory St Mary's church font SE side [5575] 1976-06-06.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 June 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory St Mary's church font SE side [5575] 1976-06-06.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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view of church exterior - portal
Scene Description: Norman door -- Photo caption: "In SW turret"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 June 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory St Mary's church Norman door [5574] 1976-06-06.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - northwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 March 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory St Mary's church west front [1516] 1937-03-27.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory St Mary's church west front [5853] 1977-09-09.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "And convent ruins"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 March 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory St Mary's church south side [1517] 1937-03-27.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: ruins of the priory cloister garth -- Photo caption: "And west end of nave of St Mary's church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 March 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory cloister garth view NW [1519] 1937-03-27.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast end
Scene Description: the southeast end of the nave of the church and north view of the priory garth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 March 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory cloister garth view north [1520] 1937-03-27.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of church exterior in context
![Photo caption: "The Benedictine priory was founded by Peter de Valoines and Albreda his wife, in about 1100"
FONT B&W photograph taken 6 June 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory St Mary's church font SE side [5575] 1976-06-06.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013] Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1131215004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The Benedictine priory was founded by Peter de Valoines and Albreda his wife, in about 1100"
FONT B&W photograph taken 6 June 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory St Mary's church font SE side [5575] 1976-06-06.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013] Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 March 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory choir and tower ruin view N [1518] 1937-03-27.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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view of church interior - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 March 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Binham Priory St Mary's interior N wall [1522] 1937-03-27.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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view of base - detail - St. Simon the Apostle
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070406065_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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view of base - detail - St. Andrew
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070406064_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidenitfied - 12 - 1 per niche
![each figure standing on a step [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070406063_compressed.png)
Scene Description: each figure standing on a step [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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design element - architectural - arch - Gothic - 8
Scene Description: each with a figure in it [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/binham/binham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00735BIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1475-1500?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Church / Chapel Name: Priory Church of St. Mary and the Holy Cross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave, towards the back
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & The Holy Cross
Church Notes: Benedicitine priory started ca. 1104; completed ca. 1250; abbey dissolved 1539; surviving nave of the abbey church now the parish church
Church Address: Warham Road, Binham, Norfolk, NR21 0DQ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km ESE of Wells-next-the-Sea, 27 km W of Cromer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Greehow
Additional Comments: damaged font (the present font [cf. FontNotes]) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original church of ca. 1104)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Binham in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9839/binham/] [accessed 10 December 2013], neither of which mentions a cleric or church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Peter, the lord, and Albreda his wife, founded here, with the consent of the Conqueror, a priory of Benedictine monks, dedicated to St. Mary, as a cell to the abbey of St. Albans, but to be subject only, as the priory of Lewes was, to that of St. Peter of Clugni, in France, and paying only to St. Albans a mark of silver annually; but not finished till the beginning of the reign of King Henry I." Blomefield (ibid.) notes: "Osgod was prior in 1106 [...] The Church was dedicated to the Holy Cross, the rectory [...] was appropriated to the priory [...] In 1310, Alan Alam was instituted vicar, presented by the prior of Binham". The present baptismal font here is noted in Gough (1792): "The font at Bingham abbey, Norfolk, is octagon adorned with Saints and the Seven Sacraments." In Fryer (?). In F. C. Husenbeth (1858) On Sacramental Fonts in Norfolk, Journal of theBritish Archaeological Association, 14:1, 51-56 [https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.1858.11887028] [accessed 12 April 2023]. In Fryer (1910). In Cautley (1949). Studied in Nichols (1994), who wonders whether the "consistent discrepancies in Fryer's count of f[i]g[ure]s raise question of possible restoration of the font during renovations in 1935". Nichols (ibid.) notes the order of the scenes thus: 1)Baptism; 2)Orders; 3)Eucharist; 4)Baptism of Christ; 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Confirmation; 7)Penance; 8)Matrimony. Nichols (ibid.) futher notes that the symbols decorating the underbowl chamfer [order corresponds to the sacramental scenes on the basin sides]: candle, chrismatory, chalice, circlet with angle's robe, winding sheet, crown, stock of birch and fretted instrument, are badly damaged, and dates the font to the third quarter of the 15th century. The guide from the Binham Parochial Church (1991) reads: "A good example of an East Anglian Seven Sacrament font, octogonal, with sculptured panels of the sacraments, in the perpendicular style". Octagonal bowl with very regular square sides separated by round plain columns; the sacramental scenes are carved within a frame that adds depth to the scenes; each corresponding side of the underbowl is also richly carved as are the sides of the base (octagonal too) which include standing figures; the bottom of the base continues the motif of the columns which separate the eight faces of bowl and base; the font rests on two wide plinths (also octagonal), the sides of the first adorned with windows and crosses in bas-relief [description from photographs in guide Binham Parochial Church, 1991]. In Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], on two steps. The upper step with panel and quatrefoil decoration. Statuettes against the stem under ogee niches, the Seven Sacraments against the bowl and the Trinity." Fully illustrated in Knott (2004).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937, 1976 and 1977
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 361918 5865360
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.920127, 0.946132
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 55′ 12.46″ N, 0° 56′ 46.07″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with reduced edges
REFERENCES
- Binham Parochial Church Council, Binham Priory: a guide to the Priory Church of St. Mary & the Holy Cross, Binham, Norfolk, Hunstanton, Norfolk: Witley Press, 1991, p. [7],[8]
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 209-212 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78528] [accessed 10 December 2013]
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 259
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 192
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 171
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 71, 87, 114fn, 173fn, 309, 310-311, 317, 319, 329-330
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 392