Besthorpe / Baconsthorp [Domesday] / Besethorp / Besthorp
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Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/besthorpe/besthorpe.htm] [accessed 6 March 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/besthorpe/besthorpe.htm] [accessed 6 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/besthorpe/besthorpe.htm] [accessed 6 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14998BES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Bunwell Road, Besthorpe, Norfolk, NR17 2LJ
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A11, 2 km E of Attleborough, 8 km SW of Wymondham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Shropham
Additional Comments: disappeared font? -- not to be confused with 'Baconsthorpe St. Mary's', also in Norfolk
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to all the Saints", and names the first recorded incumbent as "Roger de Cantelupe was rector, at whose death the first vicar was instituted", in 1262. Neither of the two Domesday entries cited in Blomefield (ibid.) mention a church or a priest in them. The present font is noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "a most curious mock-Norman drum on pillars". It is probably dated to the 19th-century restoration of the church [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this 14th-century building]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 366532 5820361
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 6.46″ N,, 1° 2′ 38.53″ E
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 1: 490-500 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=77142] [accessed 6 March 2013]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.