Kirby Bedon No. 1 / Kerkebei / Kirby Bidon / Kirkebei / Kirkeby
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 November 2020)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 November 2020)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kirbybedon/kirbybedon.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith
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design element - architectural - panel - trefoiled - 16
Scene Description: the bottom crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kirbybedon/kirbybedon.htm] [accessed 24 April 2013]
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view of church interior - monument
![Simon Knott writes: "A well-to-do local family in the late 16th century were the Sheppards, and Richard and Anne Sheppard kneel in quiet content across a prayer desk, as if fully at ease with the Anglican settlement, with no reason to fear the puritan terror that the following century would bring" [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kirbybedon/kirbybedon.htm] [accessed 15 November 2020]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1201115028_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Simon Knott writes: "A well-to-do local family in the late 16th century were the Sheppards, and Richard and Anne Sheppard kneel in quiet content across a prayer desk, as if fully at ease with the Anglican settlement, with no reason to fear the puritan terror that the following century would bring" [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kirbybedon/kirbybedon.htm] [accessed 15 November 2020]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kirbybedon/kirbybedon.htm] [accessed 24 April 2013]
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view of font cover - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith
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design element - architectural - niche - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: with pedestals
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 November 2020)
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kirbybedon/kirbybedon.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15108KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just W of the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Kirby Rd, Kirby Bedon, Norwich NR14 7DX, UK -- Tel.: +44 1508 538619
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) Kirby Rd, N of the A146 [aka London Rd], 5 km SE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Henstede [aka Henstead]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are seven entries for Kirby [Bedon] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG2705/kirby-bedon/] accessed 15 November 2020], one of which reports "2 churches. 0.16 church lands" in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Kirby, or Kirkeby [...] and Bidon, or Bedon [...] take its name from its churches, is no wonder, there being two here, long before the Confessor's time; for in his survey, they were found to have each of them 10 acres of glebe [...] The church of St. Mary at Kirby-Bedon, was appropriated to the abbey of Langleye [...] The church stood east of St. Andrew's, their churchyards being parted by the road only; it is now in ruins; it had a south porch, nave, and chancel, the steeple is standing, and is round, and had two large bells, which were lately taken down, and placed in St. Andrew's church." Blomefield (ibid.) names "William old Barlick of Saxlingham" as first recorded vicar of St. Mary's, in 1308, and "John de Cressingham", who resigned in 1318, as first recorded rector. Wilson's Imperial Gazetter of 1870-1872) reports: "St. Mary's church is now an ivy clad ruin." The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, panelled stem with trefoil niches, bowl with two ogee-headed panels to each side. Early C15." Illustrated in Knott (2008). The base of the basin panels is crenellated; the niches of the stem have tiny pedestals obviously meand to support statues; the lower base is moulded, as is the underbowl. There is an octagonal fitted font cover with floral decoration on the sides. [NB: we have no information on either of the fonts of the two Domesday-time churches here]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 389141 5828906
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.598853, 1.363178
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 35′ 55.87″ N, 1° 21′ 47.44″ 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: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 5: 474-483 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78211] [accessed 24 April 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.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 506
- Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, [transcribed in www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3031 [accessed 24 April 2013]]