Bury St. Edmunds No. 2 / Bedrisworth / Beodericsworth / St. Edmundsbury
Results: 4 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James@hopgrove, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2005 by James@hopgrove [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Edmundsbury_Cathedral] [accessed 18 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - nave - ceiling
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2048042] [accessed 18 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James@hopgrove, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2005 by James@hopgrove [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Edmundsbury_Cathedral] [accessed 18 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 13957BUR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James / St. Edmundsbury Cathedral
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1LS
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located at the A14-A134 crossroads, 20 km S of Thetford, 30 km N of Sudbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: "A church has stood on the site of the cathedral since at least 1065, when St Denis's Church was built within the precincts of Bury St Edmunds Abbey.[1] In the early 12th century the Abbot, Anselm had wanted to make a pilgrimage along the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela. He was unsuccessful and instead rebuilt St Denis's and dedicated the new church to Saint James, which served as the parish church for the north side of Bury St Edmunds. This church was largely rebuilt, starting in 1503, with more alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Edmundsbury_Cathedral] [accessed 18 July 2013]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Bury [St Edmund's] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/] [accessed 25 September 2016]; it mentions 30 priests in it, no doubt as part of the abbey contingent. The Ecclesiologist (vol. XXVIII, 1867: 157) publishes a letter to the editor from 'J.J.B.' in which the correspondent informs of the demolition of the chancel resulting in the discovery of remnants of the 12th-century church: "These remains consist principally of segments of circular Romanesque arcading, probably part of a font or pulpit, and of carved fragments of the same period." [cf. Index entries for Bury St. Edmunds No. 3 and 4 for other fonts of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.243889,
0.716667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 14′ 38″ N,
0° 43′ 0″ E
UTM: 31U 344112 5790621
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: fragment