Bessingham / Basingeham / Basingham

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/783297] [accessed 18 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bessingham St Mary's church from SE [6983] 1993-05-22.jpg] [accessed 1 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: the stages on construction clearly visible on the tower sides

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bessingham St Mary's church tower [6984] 1993-05-22.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/308246] [accessed 18 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font visible at the back (west end), behind the left (south) bank of benches

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/783296] [accessed 18 September 2013]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the damage on the basin sides

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/783297] [accessed 18 September 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01693BES
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: High Street, Bessingham, Norfolk, NR11 7JR
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km SW of Cromer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1993
Church Notes: round-tower church; the bottom of the tower may be Anglo-Saxon
There is no mention of church or cleric in the Domesday entry for "Basingeham". Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Mary, and is a rectory; in the reign of Edward I [i.e., 1272-1307] Sir Robert de Mauteby was patron: the rector had an edifice, with 30 acres of land [...] In 1301, Thomas de Hickling, instituted rector". The present font is illustrated in Fisher (1962). Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) as a plain octagonal mounted baptismal font. The font is plain except for a graded lower base. The basin is badly cracked; repaired. The woden font cover is octagonal, flat and plain; modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original pre-Conquest or Norman church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.886808, 1.218026
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 12.51″ N, 1° 13′ 4.9″ E
UTM: 31U 380104 5861166

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: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Fisher, Ernest Arthur, The Greater Anglo-Saxon Churches: an Architectural-Historical Study, London: Faber and Faber, 1962
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-04-05 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997