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Results: 4 records

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "14c tower attached to the SW corner of the nave. Fine Decorated tracery in the SE window of the nave"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 June 1986 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Briningham St Maurice's church from SE [6404] 1986-06-25.jpg] [accessed 22 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/briningham/briningham.htm] [accessed 22 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/briningham/briningham.htm] [accessed 22 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible at the west end, behind the bank of benches on the right (north) side

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/briningham/briningham.htm] [accessed 22 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 05997BRI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Maurice

Church Patron Saints: St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]

Church Location: Briningham, Norfolk, NR24 2QB

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 7 km SW of Holt, 11 km ESE of Walsingham, 16 km ENE of Fakenham, 35 km NNW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Holt

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

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, 25 June 1986

Font Notes: Click to view

There are three entries for Briningham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0334/briningham/] [accessed 22 January 2014], the two parts tenanted by bishop William of Thetford each with a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes those two churches, each endowed with twelve acres of land, but only one, a curacy, is given details of: "The Church is dedicated to St. Maurice", the first recorded curate of which is named as "Robert de Asteleye" instituted in 1328. The present font at St. Maurice's is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. C14". The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides. moulded underbowl chamfer; raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base, a moulded lower base and a plain octagonal plinth. The font is whitewashed. The cover, plain, flat and octagonal appears very flimsy; is there another? [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the two Domesday-time churches here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.86843, 1.027927

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 6.35″ N, 1° 1′ 40.54″ E

UTM: 31U 367259 5859456

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997