Scratby / Scoutebei / Scrotebey / Scroteby / Scroutebei

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06405SCR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Scratby Road, Scratby NR29 3JW
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1159, near Ormesby St. Margaret and Caister-on-Sea, 9 km NNW of Gt. Yarmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of East Flegg
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the disappeared Domesday-period church here)
Font Notes:
There are three entries for Scratby [variant spelling] in the Domesday book [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG5015/scratby/] [accessed 3 June 2014], one of which reports a church and churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, and appropriated on the decease of Ralph Putterel, rector, to the priory of Norwich, for use of the sacrist, by John Grey Bishop of Norwich, in 1205, [...] and a vicarage was appointed. [...] 1548, Robert Allen, he was the last vicar; being this year consolidated or united to Ormesby, and the church was licensed to be demolished."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 412417 5837186
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.675006, 1.70809

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 11: 246-249 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78791] [accessed 3 June 2014]