Bawdeswell / Baldereswella / Baldeshwell
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bawdeswell/bawdeswell.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bawdeswell/bawdeswell.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bawdeswell/bawdeswell.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 8 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bawdeswell All Saints church south side [6964] 1993-05-08.jpg] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12922BAW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [new church]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: The Street, Bawdeswell, Norfolk, NR20 4UX
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km NE of East Dereham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Baldereswella" mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, [...] The church has a nave, and chancel covered with lead, and a square tower with five bells." The first recorded rector is noted in this author: "In 1313, William de Measdone was instituted, presented by Sir Hugh de Vere", without any reference to advowson or patronage to point to an earlier date of a church here. The old church is noted in White's directory of 1845: "The ancient Church (All Saints,) of which the nave was destroyed by the fall of the steeple in 1739, was taken down in 1844, and rebuilt by subscription on a small scale", the new church not earning much enthusiasm in Kelly (1883): "The church of All Saints is a small edifice of flint, rebuilt in 1845, having no pretensions to architectural style: it comprises chancel, nave and aisles." The present font is noted here only as an example of the tub-shaped design applied to a 20th-century font. Illustrated in Knott (2006) . The front [east side] has a scene of the Good Sheppherd inscribed in a circle. [NB: the 14th-century church was re-built in the 19th century; we have no information on the earlier font of the original church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for the photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1993
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 367082 5845980
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.747313, 1.03078
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 44′ 50.33″ N, 1° 1′ 50.81″ E
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 184-186 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78443] [accessed 27 September 2013]
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory for Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1883, p. 241
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845, [transcription by Mike Bristow in www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/b/bawdeswell/white1845.shtml [accessed 27 September 2013]]