Bintree / Binnetre / Bintry
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, May 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bintree/bintree.htm] [accessed 25 Febryary 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 66)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: covering all the panels of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, May 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bintree/bintree.htm] [accessed 25 Febryary 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, May 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bintree/bintree.htm] [accessed 25 Febryary 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05877BIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Decorated
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Swithin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Swithun [aka Swithin]
Church Notes: a rare 12thC piscina is reported in this church
Church Address: Church Road, Bintree, Norfolk NR20 5NJ
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just W of the A1067, about 15 km ESE of Fakenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Eynesford [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Bintree [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TG0123/bintree/] [accessed 6 September 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a group of Norfolk baptismal fonts of the Decorated period in which the tracery patterns break out of the arch or window and occupy the whole panel (in the group are: Bintry, Catfield, Deopham, Hilborough, Oxborough, Rockland All Saints', Sheringham and Thompson). Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Dec[orated], but probably later C14 given the time-lag for font tracery. It is very attractive, with thinly and shallowly carved tracery patterns, including a mouchette wheel, cusped intersecting tracery, curvilinear tracery, and a circle with three spherical triangles inside." The underbowl has a graded chamfer and the base is an octagonal pedestal, both plain; the short plinth is octagonal and plain. Illustrated in Knott (2006).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 364335 5848697
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.771036, 0.988984
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 46′ 15.73″ N, 0° 59′ 20.34″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 393
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 97 and fig. 66