Burlingham St. Edmund / B'lingham / B'ningham / Burlingham St. Edmond / South Birlingham / South Burlingham / Sut B'lingeha[m]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 January 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2235201] [accessed 7 August 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burlinghamstedmund/burlinghamstedmund.htm] [accessed 7 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - painting
Scene Description: a mural of the murder of Thomas a Beckett
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 January 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2235163] [accessed 7 August 2013]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burlinghamstedmund/burlinghamstedmund.htm] [accessed 7 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end of the center aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burlinghamstedmund/burlinghamstedmund.htm] [accessed 7 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14866BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [altered], Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edmund [aka St. Edmond's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Address: Church Road, South Burlingham, Norfolk, NR13 4EU
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A47, between Norwich and Great Yarmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 11thC church here) -- altered font? (colonnettes of the base appear to be a replacement)
Font Notes:
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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].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 398657 5831050
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.61998, 1.502973
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 37′ 11.93″ N, 1° 30′ 10.7″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined [the present lining is modern]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century? / Victorian?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal moulded platform with eight raised scroll ribs around a turned centre pivot; Victorian?
REFERENCES
- André, J. Lewis, "Notes on Ritualistic Ecclesiology in North-East Norfolk", XLVI, Archaeological Journal, 1889, pp. 136-155; p. 146
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 7: 226-228 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78339] [accessed 7 August 2013]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 420