Billingford nr. Bawdeswell and Elmham / Billingeforda / Billingford St. Peter
Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 22 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Billingford St Peter's church font west [7218] 1995-07-22.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2013]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/billingford/billingford2.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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symbol - triquetra
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 22 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Billingford St Peter's church font west [7218] 1995-07-22.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2013]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - coulmns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 22 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Billingford St Peter's church font west [7218] 1995-07-22.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Billingford St Peter's church tower [7219] 1995-07-22.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Billingford St Peter's church from SE [7217] 1995-07-22.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/billingford/billingford2.htm] [accessed 30 September 2013]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Billingford St Peter's church font west [7218] 1995-07-22.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/billingford/billingford2.htm] [accessed 30 September 2013]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/billingford/billingford2.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 22 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Billingford St Peter's church font west [7218] 1995-07-22.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - motifs - moulding - round
Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the support columns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 22 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Billingford St Peter's church font west [7218] 1995-07-22.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05955BIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter [cf. Font Notes]
Church Address: Bintree Road, Billingford, Norfolk NR20 4AJ
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1145, 11 km NNE of East Dereham, about 25 km WNW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford
Font Notes:
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The two Domesday entries for "Billingeforda", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810) mention neither church nor cleric in it; this author writes: "The Church is a rectory [...] It consists of a nave and a north and south isle, covered with lead, and a chancel with tile, all much out of repair; at the west end is a square tower, on which is raised an octangular one, with 2 bells. [...] Here were the gilds of St. Mary, and the Trinity; to one of these the church was probably dedicated. [...] In the reign of Henry III. the patronage was in the family of Fregoz. [...] And Henry Fregoz occurs rector in the 34th of that King" [i.e., 1250]. This would confirm the building of the church here to between 1086 and 1250. The present font is described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font of the Early English period ornamented with an arcade. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal, with pretty arcading, and lobed dogtooth in the spandrels, probably of c.1300." [NB: the 'lobed dogtooth" is actually the triquetra symbol]. Illustrated in Knott (2006), who suggests the font may be of an earlier date than the church itself [NB: Pevsner & Wilson (1997) remark also on the chancel piscina as being 13th-century]. The octagonal basin is raised on a central shaft and four angle colonnettes, all with moulded capitals and bases, and a plain octagonal plinth. The font is somewhat crude in the execution of the carved work, as can be gathered from the unevenness of the arcade elements. Wooden cover of four ribs round a centre pivot, on a flat octagonal base; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font taken by his father, George Plunkett, in July 1995
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 363702 5845795
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.744803, 0.980815
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 44′ 41.29″ N, 0° 58′ 50.93″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (Purbeck)
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, vol. 8: 192-195 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78446] [accessed 30 September 2013]
- 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. 388
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 29, 88