Burlingham St. Andrew / B'lingeham / Birlingeham / North Birlingham / North Burligham

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B01: design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12940BUR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Lingwood and Burlingham, Norfolk NR13 4SX
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
There are two Domesday entires for "B'lingeham" noted in Blomefield (1805-1810), one with 40 acres of free land held by a Helias [="Helias. de lx. ac. terre libe. et xl. qu. p'tinent. cuida. Ecclie"] after the Conquest; the other was a church with 30 acres [="i. Ecclia. xxx. ac."] held by "15 freemen, under the commendation only of Bishop Almar". Both churches and their earliest recorded rectors are noted in Blomefield (ibid.): "The Church of St. Andrew, in North Birlingham, was a rectory [...] Richard de Runhale was rector in 10th of Richard I.[i.e., 1199] as appears from a fine then levied [...] In this town of North Birlingham was also the church of St. Peter, a rectory [...] John de Essex occurs rector, in 1287." The present baptismal font at St. Andrew's is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal, with elementary C14 decoration and stem of clustered shafts."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.637423, 1.494018
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 14.72″ N, 1° 29′ 38.47″ E
UTM: 31U 398091 5833003

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