Bodham / Bodenham / Botham
Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
Results: 6 records
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 29 November 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bodham All Saints church from NW [7105] 1993-11-28.jpg] [accessed 20 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bodham/bodham.htm] [accessed 26 March 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
view of stoup
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bodham/bodham.htm] [accessed 26 March 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12936BOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Rd., Bodham, Norfolk, NR25 6PT
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 5 km E of Holt, between this town and Cromer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Holt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 17th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of this church; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett,November 1993
Font Notes:
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Bodham has two entries in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG1238/bodham/] [accessed 20 January 2014], but neither church nor cleric is mentioned in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, and is a rectory [...] William de Wendling, [...] occurs rector about the 52d of Henry III [i.e., 1268]". The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal and C17". Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides; graded moulding on the underbowl chamfer; raised on a plain octagonal pedestal and a moulded lower base, also octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle. [NB: White's Gazetteer of Norfolk for 1883 [www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/b/bodham/white1883.shtml] [accessed 23 March 2009] mentions a holy-water stoup "outside the entrance door", but does not give a date for it; it could very well be medieval]. [NB: we have no information on the font from the 13th-century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.905929, 1.159054
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 54′ 21.34″ N, 1° 9′ 32.59″ E
UTM: 31U 376191 5863393
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-03-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997