Burlingham St. Edmund / B'lingham / B'ningham / Burlingham St. Edmond / South Birlingham / South Burlingham / Sut B'lingeha[m]

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes about the ownership of "the moiety of a church endowed with 15 acres, valued at 15d." at the time of survey Domesday], "he church of St. Edmund", and names "Adam Berry" as the first recorded rector here, in 1306. The present baptismal font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. C13, octagonal." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007) as a Purbeck-marble font. The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin plain but for a chamfer at the underbowl, raised on a cylindrical central shaft and eight moulded outer colonnettes, on a plain octagonal lower base and an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover has an octagonal platform with raised sides, on which are eight slender ribs converging on a round finial. Knott (2007) notes and illustrates "the elegant Purbeck marble font on its columns" in this church. The outer colonnettes of the base appear to be a later replacement. Andre (1899) mentions a 17th-century font here, "where the stem has very quaint columns to support the bowl." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 11th-century church here].