Burgh-next-Aylsham / Aylesham Burgh / Buc / Burc / Burgh-near-Aylsham

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B01: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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B02: sacrament - eucharist - [Mass of St. Gregory?]

Scene Description: on the south-east side of the basin; Knott [cf. FontNotes] suggests it may be the mass of St. Gregory

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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B03: sacrament - extreme unction

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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B04: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: on the south-west side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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B05: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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B06: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: on the north-west side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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B07: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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B08: sacrament - holy orders

Scene Description: on the north-east of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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BU01: symbol - soul

Scene Description: naked human figure, symbol of the soul [cf. FontNotes]

BU02: symbol - shield

Scene Description: "symbol of trinity" [cf. FontNotes]

BU03: symbol - chrismatory

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

BU04: symbol - chalice

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

BU05: symbol - scroll

Scene Description: symbol of prayer [cf. FontNotes]

BU06: symbol - chrismatory

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

BU07: symbol - book

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

BU08: symbol - birch

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: one at each angle of the bottom of the stem

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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Apostle or saint - standing - unidentified - 4

Scene Description: raised on ledges or platforms; alternating with blank (?) shields

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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symbol - shield - blank - 4

Scene Description: alternating with standing figures, on the sides of the stem

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm] [accessed 29 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm] [accessed 29 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, centre aisle

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm] [accessed 29 May 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00738BUR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Burgh-next- Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 6TR, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A140 [aka Cromer Rd.], 3 km ESE of Aylsham, 15 km N of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of this church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Bugh [-next-Aylsham] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG2125/burgh-next-aylsham/] [accessed 12 April 2023], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, and was new roofed in 1524, for then Thomas Strutte was buried in it, and gave 10 marks towards the roof [...] The nave, chancel, and south porch are thatched, the tower is square and hath one whole bell and half another". Blomefield (ibid.) names "William Russell" as first recorded rector here, in 1284. The present font here is reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "the font, which is very handsome, is elaborately scu;ptured with representations of scriptural subjects." One of East Anglia's Seven-sacrament fonts. [NB: not the same font as its contemporary in Aylsham with symbols of the Passion & Evangelists on the bowl panels and heraldic shield(s) on the shaft]. Described in Thomas (1846): "Font. Per[pendicular] panels beaded and charged with seven Romish sacraments; caps., angels clasping books; stem, robed figures on pedestals alternating with Tudor roses and shields parted per pale; at angles of base, birds with expanded wings: plinth has upper step in form of Maltese cross, and a priest's ledge westward--cavity dirty ." Noted in James (1930). Studied in detail in Nichols (1994), who gives the scenes on the basin as: Baptism; Confirmation; Orders; Eucharist ; Adoration; Extreme Unction; Matrimony; Penance. Nichols (ibid.) describes the motifs on the chamfer [starting with the one under the Baptism scene]: soul; shield of trinity; chrismatory; chalice; open scroll; chrismatory; book; birch. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997). Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burghnextaylsham/burghnextaylsham.htm] illustrates the separate basin scenes and notes the presence of the symbols of the four Evangelists at the foot of the stem. [We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of this font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.777534, 1.287073

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 46′ 39.12″ N, 1° 17′ 13.46″ E

UTM: 31U 384459 5848899

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,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and plain; octagonal

REFERENCES

Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-04-06 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997

Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846