East Bilney
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph September 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastbilney/eastbilney.htm] [accessed 24 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The chancel dates from 1883. The Perpendicular tower is unbuttressed"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/E/E Bilney St Mary's church from SE [7189] 1995-06-17.jpg] [accessed 31 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph September 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastbilney/eastbilney.htm] [accessed 31 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, just east of the tower arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph September 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastbilney/eastbilney.htm] [accessed 24 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 01685BIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Fludge's Lane, East Bilney, Beetley, Norfolk NR20 4HN
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NWN of East Dereham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1995
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "This town does not occur in the book of Domesday, being accounted for under the Earl Warren's lordship of Gressenhale, and that of the Bishop of Norwich's of Elmham, which took in all this town [...] The Church is dedicated to St. Mary, and is a rectory [...] Philip de Reedham occurs rector in the 45th of Henry III" [i.e., 1261]. The Historic Churches Preservation Trust mentions an "octagonal font, 13th century" in this church [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 22 June 2004, www.historicchurches.org.uk]. Noted, and llustrated in context, in Knott (2006). The octagonal basin has plain vertical sides, and just a faint moulding at the underbowl; the octagonal stem may be a later addition; octagonal plinth. The basin may date from the original church, ca. 1261.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.738297, 0.89503
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 17.87″ N, 0° 53′ 42.11″ E
UTM: 31U 357891 5845237
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-24 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.