Beighton / Begeton / Begetuna / Boyton
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/831311] [accessed 6 May 2014]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Gothic arches - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/831311] [accessed 6 May 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 May 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Beighton All Saints church south side [6815] 1992-05-27.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/831311] [accessed 6 May 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/831292] [accessed 6 May 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05938BEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: Sutton, Beccles, Denham and many others all over England
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Hill, Beighton, Norfolk, NR13 3JZ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just S of the A47, 3 km S of Acle, 15 km E of Norwich (dir. Gt. Yarmouth)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Walsham
Additional Comments: altered font? (re-tooled; the present one) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Beighton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3808/beighton/] [accessed 6 May 2014], one of which reports a church and churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints. [...] The prior of Norwich had a portion of tithe [...] Thomas de Blomvile confirmed the grant of it by John de Grey Bishop of Norwich. [...] Here was also a vicarage formerly, as appears from the inquisition books". Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes: "The octagonal form persisted in fonts of the same class in the thirteenth century, with the change that in the Early English style pointed arches take the place of rounded ones in the shallow incised arcading", and includes Beighton's font in that group. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Of stone, but of the familiar C13 Purbeck type, with eight sides, each with two shallow pointed arches." The present font appears to have been drastically re-tooled, the base totally or partially replaced. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TG3866508298] notes: "Parish church. Fabric mainly C14 and C15 with C19 restoration [...] C13 octagonal font with two shallow pointed arches in each face, large central stem and eight plain shafts." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): no details [source given: The Revd. C. Scott]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1992
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 400041 5830923
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.6191, 1.52344
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 37′ 08.76″ N, 1° 31′ 24.38″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 11: 97-100 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78757] [accessed 6 May 2014]
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 75
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 386
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 29, 88