Bexwell / Bechesuuella / Becheswella / Bekeauuella / Bekesuuella / Bekeswell / Bekeswella / Besh suuella

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Standing permission
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 October 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bexwell St Mary's church from SE [7099] 1993-10-31.jpg] [accessed 14 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - southwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 October 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bexwell St Mary's church tower and porch [7098] 1993-10-31.jpg] [accessed 14 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 05994BEX
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Bexwell, Norfolk, PE38
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the A1101, 3 km ENE of Downham Market
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Clackclose
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century / 17th century, Decorated? / Restoration?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1993. We are also grateful to Simon Knott. of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: round-tower church
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Hermerus de Ferrers had also a manor here, which, in the Confessor's time, consisted of a carucate of land, held by 7 freemen, and 3 carucates held by 3 bordarers; half a fish-pool, 5 acres of meadow, with a church endowed with 24 acres of land [...] in the 6th of Edward I.[i.e., 1278] a fine was levied between Hugh Bishop of Ely, querent, and Stephen de Bekeswell and Gundreda his wife, deforcients, of the advowson of the church here [...] The Church of Bexwell is dedicated to St. Mary, and built of rag or car stone, dug out of the neighbouring pits; it has a nave and a chancel, both of equal height and breadth, and covered with lead. At the west end stands a round tower, and on that an octangular one; the quoins of every angle are of free-stone, and the upper part embattled; a work of later date probably erected on the decay of the old round tower about 1517, [...] In this tower hangs one bell. The nave is about 46 feet in length, and 19 in breadth. [...] Mr. John de Newton, rector about 1293". The font here is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as 17th-century. Illustrated in Knott (2004). The Parish web site [www.bexwell-church.co.uk/ch.htm] [accessed 14 August 2013] notes: "The font is 14th C".
The font has a plain octagonal basin, a plain octagonal underbowl and a plain octagonal pedestal base; awkward and ugly. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.603823,
0.406576
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 36′ 13.76″ N,
0° 24′ 23.68″ E
UTM: 31U 324381 5831359
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-16 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