Burston nr. Diss

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Apostle or saint - saints? - 8

Scene Description: [Including Andrew holding a saltire cross [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1773331] [accessed 12 February 2013]

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design element - motifs - floral - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1773331] [accessed 12 February 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1773331] [accessed 12 February 2013]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The Norman round tower fell in 1753"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 26 November 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Burston St Mary's church from NE [7296] 1995-11-26.jpg] [accessed 22 January 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1773291] [accessed 12 February 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking northwest

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1773331] [accessed 12 February 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15011BUR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [aka The Blessed Virgin]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Diss Rd., Burston and Shimpling, Norfolk IP22 5TP

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNE of Diss

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Diss

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) reports a church "dedicated to the Blessed Virgin [...] a rectory [...] appropriated by John of Oxford, Bishop of Norwich, to Butley priory", with a rector name Wybart before 1299; the said rectory, adds Blomefield (ibid.), "being given them by King Henry I at their founder's request, before he gave the manor to the Fitz-Walters." [NB: Henry I reigned 1100-1135]. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15. Round the stem, not in niches, eight figures, quite good." Illustrated in ACRE [www.acre.org.uk/communityassets_churches_casestudies.html] [accessed 20 July 2009]. The octagonal basin appears plain [has it been re-cut?] but has floral motifs on the underbowl; the carving of protruding figures here is a rare case in fonts of the area; the eight figures, raised on little polygonal pedestals, have had their heads broken off; one of the figures is easily identified as Andrew, the Apostle, by the saltire cross he holds; the font is raised on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is a modern abstract rendering of the Jacobean traditional desing; strange.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.405056, 1.14018

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 24′ 18.2″ N, 1° 8′ 24.65″ E

UTM: 31U 373484 5807718

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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