Weybourne / Waborn / Waborne / Wabruna / Waburne / Wayborn / Wayborne

Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014

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view of church exterior - northeast end

Scene Description: Ruins of the old priory church -- Photo caption: "Remains of the north wall of nave and chancel of priory"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 August 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Weybourne Priory ruin Saxon church view NE [5837] 1977-08-28.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast end

Scene Description: the parish church -- Photo caption: "With ruined priory tower"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Weybourne All Saints church from SE [3903] 1950-07-24.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the parish church -- Photo caption: "With ruined priory tower. North of the chancel are the ruins of the Augustinian Priory founded in the reign of King John. It incorporated in its buildings the remains of an earlier Saxon parish church of which the south wall of the tower still stands. The priory was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and All Saints, and was a cell to that at West Acre"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 August 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Weybourne All Saints church from SE [5836] 1977-08-28.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "With ruined priory tower" -- the ruins of the old priory tower attached to the north side of the chancel of the parish church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Weybourne All Saints church from SE [3904] 1950-07-24.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Ruins of the old priory church; the building on the left is part of the parish church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 August 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Weybourne Priory ruin Saxon church from SE [5835] 1977-08-28.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2014

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/weybourne/weybourne.htm] [accessed 30 January 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font is visible at the west end, behind a small desk

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/weybourne/weybourne.htm] [accessed 30 January 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14963WEY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [former priory church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and All Saints]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints [formerly to St. Mary & All Saints?]
Church Location: Sheringham Road, Weybourne, Norfolk NR25 7AH
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the A149, 5 km W of Sheringham, 10 km from Cromer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Holt
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1950 and 1977
There are two entries for Weybourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG1143/weybourne/], but there is no mention of a church or cleric in either of them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Wayborne is dedicated to All-Saints, and was appropriated to the priory of Wayborn [...] The priory in this town was for canons of the order of St. Austin, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and All-Saints: Sir Ralph Meynelwaryn of Cheshire is said to have founded it in the reign of Henry II. but it is more probable that Sir Ralph Meynelwaryn, who lived in the reign of King John [i.e., 1199-1216], was the founder [NB: the latter date and double dedication are confirmed in the Victoria County History (Norfolk, vol. 2 (1906)] [...] It was at first subordinate to Westacre priory." The present octagonal font in this church is probably from the 19th-century restoration [NB: the priory goes back to ca. 1200 and there are claims that the tower of priory church incorporated remnants of a previous Saxon tower, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.943355, 1.141536
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 56′ 36.08″ N, 1° 8′ 29.53″ E
UTM: 31U 374879 5867441

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-01-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810