Burgh St. Margaret / Burc / Burgh / Fleggburgh

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Norman work; now blocked

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 May 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Burgh St Margaret's church Norman N door [5524] 1976-05-22.jpg] [accessed 23 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: inside the south porch; Norman work

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 13 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Burgh St Margaret's church Norman N door [5524] 1976-05-22.jpg] [accessed 23 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal - archivolt

Scene Description: Norman work

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 13 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Burgh St Margaret's church Norman N door [5524] 1976-05-22.jpg] [accessed 23 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Fleggburgh"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 13 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Burgh St Margaret's church south side [5483] 1975-09-13.jpg] [accessed 23 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/855787] [accessed 23 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/855802] [accessed 23 May 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 taken by Peter Fairweather

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The font (seen here) dates from the 19th century"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/855807] [accessed 23 May 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00739BUR

Museum and Inventory Number: [In the garden of Bessingham Manor -- unavailable for viewing]

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret [later In the garden of Bessingham Manor]

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Caister road, Burgh St. Margaret's (Fleggburgh), Norfolk, NR29 3AB

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Burgh St. Margaret is 12 kms NW of Gt. Yarmouth, 25 km E of Norwich [Bessingham Manor House is located 8 km SSW of Cromer, 13 km NNW of Aylsham --it was built by John Spurrell (+1803) and was the residency of the Spurrell family until 1970 -- Daniel Spurrell (1817-1906) would be the gradson of the founder of the Hall]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of West Flegg

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, for the photograph of the modern font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are six entries for this Burgh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4414/burgh-st-margaret/] [accessed 23 May 2014], but not a single church or cleric is reported in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In this town were two churches, St. Margaret's and St. Mary's. That of St. Margaret was a rectory anciently"; and the first-recorded rector of it: "In 1319, Robert de Fileby was presented, by the the Lady Joan de Clavering." Cautley (1949) notes that there was a font "quoted by the Revd. H. S. Squirell as being in the garden of Bessingham Manor, and said to have come from Burgh St. Margaret (Norfolk Archaeology Vol. 25, page 94)". Nichols (1994) reports that the Seven-sacrament baptismal font originally from this parish was "removed during the incumbency of C.J. Lucas and presented to Daniel Spurrell, who placed the font in the garden of Bessingham Manor. A later offer to return the font was declined [...] It thus seems likely that the sculpture had already been substantially damaged before its removal. My request to see the font was denied." [NB: Daniel Spurrell (1817-1952]. Nichols (ibid.) notes that the font was reproduced in Fryer (1934: pl. 1-B). [NB: the other baptismal font now [November 2004] in use in this church is a late one, dated in Pevsner & Wilson to 1876, probably from the rebuilding by Green, consisting of an octagonal raised on a pedestal, all decorated with motifs imitating those of the Perpendicular period. [NB: the ruins of another church, St. Maty, are nearby, but there is no font in them -- the oldest parts of this church date to the 12th century]. The modern font "in the style of the 15th century" is illustrated in Knott (2006).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.66897, 1.6146

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 8.29″ N, 1° 36′ 52.56″ E

UTM: 31U 406318 5836348

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

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

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

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