Kimberley / Chineburlai / Kimburle / Kimburley

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15105KIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Wymondham Road, Kimberley, Norfolk NR18 9EY
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km NW of Wymondham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe [aka Forehou]
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church, is dedicated to St. Peter; in Henry the Third's time [i.e., 1216-1272], William, son of Wluric, was rector", and reports a later vicar, incumbent in 1396, John Barker of Thugarton, as being "buried by the font step, in 1400." Knott (2006) informs that the font here was replaced at the time of the 1870s renovation of the church. The present font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with cusped panels on the sides, raised on an octagogal pedestal base with arches on the sides; raised on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover, probably of the same Victorian period, is an octagonal pyramid with crocketed arrises. [NB: the font mentioned in Blomefield [cf. supra], at the foot of which a vicar was buried in 1400, no longer exists, and we have no other information on its end].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 368417 5829093

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 2: 535-539 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78108] [accessed 19 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.