Billockby / Billokeby / Bithlakebei / Bitlakebei / Bitlakelej / Byllockly

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design element - motifs - panel - 8

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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/831329] [accessed 23 May 2014]
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design element - motifs - tracery

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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - northwest view

Photo caption: "The tower of All Saints church was struck by lightning in 1762 and has since fallen to ruin, with a large crack splitting the west tower wall almost in half. Falling masonry soon also destroyed the nave but the chancel was made safe; restored in the late 1800s it is still occasionally being used for worship."
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The tower of All Saints church was struck by lightning in 1762 and has since fallen to ruin, with a large crack splitting the west tower wall almost in half. Falling masonry soon also destroyed the nave but the chancel was made safe; restored in the late 1800s it is still occasionally being used for worship."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/831326] [accessed 23 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Photo caption: "Struck by lightning in 1762; on[ly] the chancel remains in use"
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Struck by lightning in 1762; on[ly] the chancel remains in use"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 November 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Billockby All Saints church from SE [6938] 1992-11-28.jpg] [accessed 23 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/321773] [accessed 23 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font in context

partial view of the basin in the context of the chancel; the latter serves now as nave in the half-ruined church
Scene Description: partial view of the basin in the context of the chancel; the latter serves now as nave in the half-ruined church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/831329] [accessed 23 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 12926BIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Lane, Fleggburgh, Norfolk NR29 3BE
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located between Acle and Stalham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of West Flegg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the remaining part, the former chancel
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1992
Font Notes:
There are four entries for Billockby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4213/billockby/] [accessed 23 May 2014], one of which reports a church and churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes that "two parts of the church endowed with 7 acres" were in the part held in 1086 by Bernard [aka Bernar] for Bishop William of Thetford, who was the tennant-in-chief. Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, and is a rectory". The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with very simple panels, those on the stem with tracery." The building was hit by a lightning strike in 1762; only the old chancel -which now houses the font- was restored in the 19th century. [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.665804, 1.591557
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 56.89″ N, 1° 35′ 29.6″ E
UTM: 31U 404753 5836026

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997