Besthorpe / Baconsthorp [Domesday] / Besethorp / Besthorp
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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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 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
view of font
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14998BES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Bunwell Road, Besthorpe, Norfolk, NR17 2LJ
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
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
Century and Period: 13th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and modern font
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]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 6.46″ N,, 1° 2′ 38.53″ E
UTM: 31U 366532 5820361
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: 2009-07-16 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.