Apton, in Bergh Apton / Apletona / Appleton / Burgh Apton
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02310APT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin [in ruins until 1834; now disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: [cf. Directions to site]
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Apton was located near the present day Church Farm on Dodgers Lane, Bergh Apton, off (S) of the A146, 11 km SE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon [aka Lodding]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the church may have been abandoned as early as the 16thC)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "A[pton]. Called in Domesday Book, Appleton [...] A church formerly belonged to it, dedicated to St. Martin, was a rectory [...] In the reign of Edward I. the rector had a manse [...] destroyed about two centuries past."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 391671 5824593
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 96 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78634] [accessed 14 February 2014]