Bergh in Bergh Apton / Burgh Apton
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/berghapton/berghapton.htm] [accessed 10 July 2009]
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4
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angel - 4
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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/berghapton/berghapton.htm] [accessed 10 July 2009]
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angel - demi-figure - holding object - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/berghapton/berghapton.htm] [accessed 10 July 2009]
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symbol - cross - Latin - 16
Scene Description: pairs of crosses on each side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/berghapton/berghapton.htm] [accessed 10 July 2009]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/berghapton/berghapton.htm] [accessed 28 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 13 May 1992 vt George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bergh Apton Ss Peter and Paul church SE [6773] 1992-05-13.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/berghapton/berghapton.htm] [accessed 28 February 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/berghapton/berghapton.htm] [accessed 28 February 2014]
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human figure - 4
Scene Description: saints?
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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/berghapton/berghapton.htm] [accessed 10 July 2009]
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/berghapton/berghapton.htm] [accessed 10 July 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14991BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Bergh Apton, Norfolk, NR15 1BX
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the Welbeck Rd-Church Rd crossroads, 12 km SSE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1286 church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "This town does not occur in the Book of Domesday [...] The Church of Bergh is a rectory, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, has a nave and south isle covered with lead, a square tower, with 6 tuneable bells, and a chancel covered with lead [...] In the 14th of Edward I. Simon de Liston was rector, and James was vicar." 1286 is therefore the earliest reference to the date of this church found in Blomefield (ibid.). The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15. Octagonal. Against the stem four lions and four statuettes. Against the bowl the signs of the four Evangelists and four elegant standing angels." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "intriguing font with angels and evangelistic symbols. The subjects are typically East Anglian, but the carvings are unlike any others I have seen, and the angel on the south-east panel must surely be intended as St Michael." Although in general terms the font fits the common design of the East Anglia type, it has rather unusual details: the four standing angels of the basin do not fit the usual depiction in these fonts; there are pairs of crosses between the angels of the underbowl; the figures on the base, between the lions, are also unsusual, certainly not woodwooses. An odd piece. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original ca. 1286 (?) church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1992
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 394264 5821888
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.536803, 1.441029
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 32′ 12.49″ N, 1° 26′ 27.7″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and plain; modern?
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 96-100 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78635] [accessed 28 February 2014]
- 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 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 202