Babingley / Babinghelea [Domesday] / Babingle / Babinkeleia

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the ruins of St. Felix

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1528063] [accessed 6 November 2013]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the ruins of St. Felix' in the context of the long missing village

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2006 by Andy Peacock [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/181753] [accessed 6 November 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking southeast

Scene Description: the ruins of St. Felix -- the blocked chancel arch on the left of the image

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view of church interior - nave - looking southwest

Scene Description: the ruins of St. Felix -- the tower arch opening on the right on the image

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view of church interior - tower - looking up

Scene Description: the ruins of St. Felix

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14979BAB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Felix [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Felix
Church Location: Sandringham, Norfolk PE31 6AW
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A149, just NW of Castle Rising
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Freebridge
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church Notes: a church said to have been founded here by St. Felix in the 7thC
There are two entries [Babinghelea, Babinkelea] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF6626/babingley/] [accessed 6 November 2013], but neither mentions church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Babingley is dedicated to St. Felix, the Apostle and Bishop of the East-Angles, whose seat was at Dunwish in Suffolk about the year 630, who is said to have converted this part of Norfolk to Christianity, and to have built a church here, the first in this neighbourhood [...] It is a rectory [...]The nave or body of the church, with the south isle, is covered with tiles, the chancel is dilapidated; at the west end of the nave stands a square tower." Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "Andrew occurs rector, the 2d of Henry III." [i.e., 1218]. [NB: the reference to St. Felix in Bloemfield [cf. supra] must be to Felix of Burgundy, aka Felix of Dunwich: "Felix [St Felix] (d. 647/8), bishop of the East Angles, was born in the Frankish kingdom of Burgundy. Like all that is known for certain about Felix, his origin is reported by Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and Bede says that he was ordained in Burgundy." [source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/9253] [accessed 6 November 2013]]. The late medieval church of Babingley is in ruins and the original font has disappeared.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.806616, 0.470734
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 23.82″ N, 0° 28′ 14.64″ E
UTM: 31U 329517 5853757

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810