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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bodney/bodney.htm] [accessed 7 May 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bodney/bodney.htm] [accessed 7 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end, centre aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bodney/bodney.htm] [accessed 7 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bodney/bodney.htm] [accessed 7 May 2013]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05995BOD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

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

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Hilborough Watton Road, Norfolk IP26 5BX

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the B1108, 13 km S of Swaffham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of South Greenhoe

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "This is a depopulated village, and consists only of a manor-house, a farm-house adjoining, and a poor rectory-house like a cottage, at the east end of the churchyard [...] The church is dedicated to St. Mary, [...] it is a single pile of flint, pebble stones, &c. standing on a rising ground near the hall, in length about 31 feet and 18 in breadth; at the east end is the chancel, of equal elevation and breadth, and about 20 feet in length, and separated only from the body by an arch of stone. On the summit of the west gable is a small stone-arch, wherein hangs the bell, the rope coming through the roof into the church, which bespeaks the antiquity of the church, being built (as is most likely) in the Saxon age, and the whole is covered with thatch. [...] Peter de Romayn, rector about 1260." The present font 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): "Octagonal, C14." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2008). Octagonal basin with plain tapering sides, graded underbowl chamfer; on an octagonal pedestal base with moulded lower base. The polygonal plinth appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the 13th-century church here].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of this church and font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 344088 5825450

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.556756, 0.700103

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 33′ 24.32″ N, 0° 42′ 0.37″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 15-19 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78223] [accessed 7 May 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 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 210
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 31