Burnham Overy Town / Burnham Overey
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 8 records
B01: unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: sacrament - baptism?
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1091003007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the basin sides now plain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/865948] [accessed 20 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Lower part of tower is Norman, and 14c above"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Burnham Overy St Clement's church S side [7271] 1995-10-01.jpg] [accessed 24 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burnhamovery/burnhamovery.htm] [accessed 4 June 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burnhamovery/burnhamovery.htm] [accessed 4 June 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burnhamovery/burnhamovery.htm] [accessed 4 June 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05999BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Clement
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Clement
Church Address: Burnham Overy, Norfolk PE31 8HX
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the NE coast of Norfolk, just inland from Holkam Bay, on the B1155
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundreds of Gallows and Bothercross
Additional Comments: altered font? carved scenes cut off the sides? -- disappeared font? (the one from the original church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Burnham Overey is dedicated to St. Clement; churches so dedicated may be observed for the most part to be always seated near some water, river, or sea; it was formerly a rectory [...] The church is built in a conventual manner, the steeple being between the nave or body, and the chancel; and has also a south isle, which with the nave is covered with lead, and the chancel is tiled, and in the tower, which is foursquare, is one bell." Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "Robert occurs vicar in the 12th of Edward I" [i.e., 1284], the first recorded vicar here. The present 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. Pevsner & Wilson (1999), however, note: "Octagonal and re-cut, leaving fragments of a baptism scene and another unidentifiable scene on two of the plain bowl facets." The basin sides show damage and repairs and have a reinforcement metal ring around the stop; the octagonal base itself appears to have been altered too. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decorations and ring handle. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for the photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 348345 5869334
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.95216, 0.742545
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 57′ 7.78″ N, 0° 44′ 33.16″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 7: 19-28 / www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78294] [accessed 4 June 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.
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 31