Dickleburgh / Dicclesburc

There is an entry for Dickleburgh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM1682/dickleburgh/] [accessed 18 February 2024]; it mentions two priests, a church and "0.25 church lands' in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) reports: "Round the step of the font is this: Orate pro anima Roberti Buring, et pro animabus quibus tenetur, qui istum Fontem in Honore Dei fecit." Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 as "a finely sculptured font of Caen stone". Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM1677982423] notes: "C14 and C15, large church [...] Good C15 font with polygonal bowl with carved panels of Evangelist and angels, and stem with lions and wild men." The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with deeply-carved sides with the symbols of the four Evangelists bearing scrolls alternating with four demi-angels holding charged shields [of the ones visible in the source photograph: one shield has the three crowns of East Anglia, the other a cross and, probably, the Instruments of the Passion]; angel heads at the angles of the underbowl, rosettes on the sides of the chamfer below; on the stem four large sedente lions alternate with four very scrawny woodwooses wielding clubs; raised on an octagonal plinth [NB: the inscription noted in Blomefield [cf. supra] is not discernible in our source photograph]. The wooden cover has a decorated top and appears Victorian.