Leziate / Lesiate / Lesyate

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15116LEZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1145, 9-10 km E of King's Lynn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Freebridge
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Blomefield (1805-1810), in his entry for Wyke [Ashwiken] notes "Lesyate is still a distant separate parish, and has a church belonging to it [...] The Church of Lesyate was dedicated to All-Saints, and appropriated to the priory of Westacre", and names "Edmund de Schipedene, to Lesyate vicarage, by the prior of Westacre", as first recorded vicar here, in 1312; the list of vicars here in Blomefield (ibid.) shows that the last one listed: "1474, Thomas Dyman: after this, it was united to Ashwyken". White's Directory of 1845 already reported that "of the church at Leziate, nothing remains but the foundation, the benefice having been long consolidated with Ashwicken". Pevsner & Wilson (1999) note: "In 1960 the ruins were hardly recognizable […] in 1994 could not be found." [NB: we have no information on the font of this church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 329879 5846248

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 517
  • White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845, [transcription in http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/l/leziate/white1845.shtml [accessed 10 August 2009]