Beeston-next-Mileham / Beeston St. Mary

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/beeston/beeston.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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design element - motifs - scotia-torus

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/beeston/beeston.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/beeston/beeston.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Decorated windows at east end with reticulated tracery"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 23 September 1995 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Beeston St Mary Virgin church east end [7250] 1995-09-23.jpg] [accessed 31 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 23 September 1995 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Beeston St Mary Virgin church from NW [7252] 1995-09-23.jpg] [accessed 31 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west tower - spire

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Spire rebuilt 1873"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 23 September 1995 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Beeston St Mary Virgin church tower spire [7251] 1995-09-23.jpg] [accessed 31 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font - west side

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/beeston/beeston.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: interior view looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/beeston/beeston.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05993BEE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Road, Beeston, Norfolk PE32 2LY

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located near Mileham, 12 km W of East Dereham, S of Fakenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1995

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary [...] [it] is a regular pile, with a nave and two isles, covered with lead, (the chancel tiled,) with a tower, and thereon a shaft, or spire, and 4 bells. [...] The church was founded in memory of the Nativity of the blessed Virgin". Blomefield (ibid.) names "William de Paston" as first recorded rector, sine data, "in the minority of William de Warren" [NB: this William de Warren is identified in Blomefield (ibid.) as "son of John Earl Warren and Surry", i.e., William of Warenne (1286-1347), 7th Earl of Surrey]. Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists a font in Beeston, Norfolk, as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as 14th-century. This same source remarks on the wooden font cover: "It was here by 1536 because there was a bequest to Wendling in that year to make a font cover like the one at Beeston." Knott (2005) and adds that, at the time of that visit, "[t]he 15th century crocketed font cover is still under the tower". The basin of this font has plain vertical sides, with a scotia-torus combination forming the underbowl; the octagonal stem is plain; the narrow splaying lower base is moulded and octagonal as well. The font may have been re-tooled. it stands on a tallish octagonal plinth that has a two-step priest's stone that is covered in moss, whereas the font itself appears pristine.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.701333, 0.801689

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42′ 4.8″ N, 0° 48′ 6.08″ E

UTM: 31U 351464 5841314

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 14th-15th century?

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-04-05 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928