Bintree / Binnetre / Bintry

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Results: 4 records
design element - motifs - tracery
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 05877BIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Swithin
Church Patron Saints: St. Swithun [aka Swithin]
Church Location: Church Road, Bintree, Norfolk NR20 5NJ
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
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]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Decorated
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of this font.
Church Notes: a rare 12thC piscina is reported in this church
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).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.771036, 0.988984
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 46′ 15.73″ N, 0° 59′ 20.34″ E
UTM: 31U 364335 5848697
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]. Accessed: 2007-02-25 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928