Bawsey / Bouseda / Boweseia

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Scene Description: the ruins of St. James' -- sign of he Norfolk County Council posted at the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2010 by Chris McAuley [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1809021] [accessed 6 November 2013]

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: the ruins of St. James' -- Photo caption: "Right hand jamb with Norman capital"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bawsey St James' church ruin Norman S door [5630] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the ruins of St. James' [NB: the tower is in a central position]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bawsey St James' church ruin from SW [5627] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2013]

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view of church exterior - tower - detail

Scene Description: the ruins of St. James' -- Photo caption: "West side of central tower"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bawsey St James' church ruin Norman W arch [5628] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the ruins of St. James' in the eerie landscape of the disappeared village

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2010 by Chris McAuley [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1807301] [accessed 6 November 2013]

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view of church interior - tower - east doorway

Scene Description: the ruins of St. James' -- Photo caption: "East side of central tower"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bawsey St James' church ruin Norman E arch [5629] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

FontID: 14988BAW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James [in ruins]

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: [cf. Directions to site]

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: There has not been a Bawsey village for centuries -- the church is located off (N) the B1145, just E of King's Lynn; the church is just N of the Church Farm

Ecclesiastic Region: {Diocese of Norwich]

Historical Region: Hundred and half of Freebridge

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in August 1976

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

"Bouseda" and "Boweseia" are noted in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF6519/bawsey/] [accessed 6 November 2013] but there is neither church nor cleric mentioned in it, which appears as a hamlet [beruit] of Glosthorp ["Gloresthorp" in Domesday]. Blomefield (1805-1810) reports that William de Bovill sued "for the advowson of the church [...] in the 3d of Edward I." [i.e., 1275". Blomefield (ibid.) names "Oliver de Bradley" first recorded rector [sine data], and the first one with a date "John de Walpole, presented by the prior and convent of Eye", in 1330. The Norman church of St. James has been, according to Pevsner & Wilson (1999), "ruinous since before 1770" [NB: we have no information on its original font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.756454, 0.465818

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 23.23″ N, 0° 27′ 56.95″ E

UTM: 31U 328990 5848190

REFERENCES

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999