Magna Berwick / Barwick / Berwick Magna / Great Berwick
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06686BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [disappeared?]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: [unable to locate this site -- there is a Gt. and Little Berwick in Shrops.]
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Smethdon [Hundred of Docking?]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "This, as I conceive, remained in Bigot, till granted by King William II. to William de Albini, ancestor of the Earls of Essex and Arundel, of that name; this in a great measure appears from the grant of Richard, son of Robert de Scenges, of the church of St. Mary, of (this town) Berwick, to the priory of Bokenham [...] (founded by William de Albini aforesaid) in the reign of King Henry II and then confirmed to that house, by William de Albini Earl of Sussex and Arundel, then capital lord of the feee, of whom Richard then held it." Not clear whether the church existed in William II's reign [1087-1100]; "Bokenham" must be Old Buckenham Priory, founded by William de Albini in 1146. [NB: it is not clear whether there were a church in each of Magna Berwick and Berwick Parva -- cf. Index entry for Berwick Parva].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 295-296 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78681] [accessed 1 April 2014]