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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bawburgh/bawburgh.htm] [accessed 15 March 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: N/A INT ALMS BOX B&W photograph taken 21 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bawburgh Ss Mary and Walstan old alms box [5784] 1977-05-21.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2014] Photo caption: "Pillar-type alms box."

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 February 1939 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bawburgh Ss Mary and Walstan church from SE [2884] 1939-02-26.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Round tower probably pre-conquest"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 21 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bawburgh Ss Mary and Walstan church tower [5782] 1977-05-21.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 November 2020)

view of church interior - alms box

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Pillar-type alms box."

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 21 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bawburgh Ss Mary and Walstan old alms box [5784] 1977-05-21.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - alms box - detail

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 21 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bawburgh Ss Mary and Walstan old alms box [5784] 1977-05-21.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 November 2020)

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bawburgh/bawburgh.htm] [accessed 15 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Restored screen west side"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 21 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bawburgh Ss Mary and Walstan church screen [5783] 1977-05-21.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bawburgh/bawburgh.htm] [accessed 15 March 2013]

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 November 2020)

view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bawburgh/bawburgh.htm] [accessed 15 March 2013]

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view of font and cover - back side

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 November 2020)

view of font and cover - front side

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 November 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 14987BAW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Walstan

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Walstan

Church Location: Church St, Bawburgh, Norfolk, NR9 3LT, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 8 km W of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe

Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and modern font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1977

Church Notes: round-tower church by 1016; Anglo-Saxon?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Bawburgh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG1508/bawburgh/] [accessed 23 November 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes of the pilgrimage character of this church, on account of it having been founded for the cult of St. Walstan: "In ancient time, besides the vicar, there were six chantry priests serving in the church at St. Walstan's altar, which Saint was inshrined in the north chapel of this church, which was demolished on that account at the Reformation, the shrine being daily visited, not only by pilgrims from all parts of England, but numbers came from beyond the seas for that purpose; and while this place remained in such repute, the inhabitants in general, and the vicar and serving priests, grew exceeding rich, so that in 1309 they rebuilt the chancel, and adorned the church and chapel in the most handsome manner. [...] But when pilgrimages ceased, and all such rites were abolished, the inhabitants came immediately to great poverty, and so continued till the church became so ruinous, that it was scarce fit for divine service, neither could they afterwards assemble in it, without hazard of their lives; and so it remained forsaken for some time. [...] At the revision in 1633, the church was repaired and tiled, there being about 300l. laid out on it, so that then there was scarce a handsomer church in the deanery. [...] It was a rectory valued at 10 marks, the church being dedicated to St. Mary and St. Walstan, and was given by Alan Viscount of Roan in Normandy, to the Abbot of Bon-Repos (de Bona Requie) there, [...] and by the Abbot, in 1235, to the Prior and convent of Norwich". Blomefield (ibid.) names "Sir Bartholomew de Norwich" as the first recorded vicar of it. The present font is illustrated in Knott (2006), of early design (hemispherical basin on a round pedestal base) but modern manufacture. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TG1527008635] notes: "C12 tower, chancel c.1300, C15 nave. [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 13th century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 377056 5833029

REFERENCES

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-10 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.