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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a square

Scene Description: notice the damaged and repaired areas of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642231] [accessed 30 August 2013]

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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - in a square

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642231] [accessed 30 August 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642231] [accessed 30 August 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642231] [accessed 30 August 2013]

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design element - motifs - spur - 4

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642231] [accessed 30 August 2013]

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symbol - shield

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: in 1975

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Shingham St Botolph's church Norman S door [5466] 1975-09-11.jpg] [accessed 28 August 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642200] [accessed 30 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: in 1975

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 11 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Shingham St Botolph's church Norman S door [5466] 1975-09-11.jpg] [accessed 28 August 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642201] [accessed 30 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: in 1975

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Shingham St Botolph's church from SE [5467] 1975-09-11.jpg] [accessed 28 August 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642186] [accessed 30 August 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642216] [accessed 30 August 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the far [west] end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642230] [accessed 30 August 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15176SHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]

Church Location: Beachamwell, Shingham, Norfolk PE37 8AY

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km SW of Swaffham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred and half of Clackclose

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1975

Church Notes: The Church of England site entry for Beachamwell St. Mary [www.achurchnearyou.com/beachamwell-st-mary/] [accessed 13 August 2013] notes: "the church of St Botolph in nearby Shingham, which is licensed to a local farming family. No services are held at St Botolph's but the churchyard there is used for burials as the churchyard at St Mary's is now full."

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In Blomefield's (1805-1810) entry for this parish it is explained that "the church and tenement in the north part" were actually in the hundred of Clackclose, "The Church is a very antique building of flint stone, &c. all of an equal height, without any additional chancel; part of the east end of this church, being taken in with a screen, serving that purpose, and without any tower, having an arch of stone on the summit of the west gable-end, where formerly hung a bell. It is dedicated to St. Butolph, and is a rectory [...] Bartholomew de Walsingham, rector", without a date; the next recorded rector is dated 1328, "Richard de Geistwayte on Walsingham's resignation", therefore Bartholomew would have been his immediate predecessor and close to him by date. The church itself, however, must have existed considerably earlier, because the partition of the parish in the two hundreds with the church being in the hundred Clackclose, reported in Blomefield (ibid.): "I find, by an old parchment roll, that this village lay partly in two hundreds" dated "in the 3d of Edward I.", i.e., 1275. The church, therefore, must have existed prior to that date. The present font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with tracery and geometric shapes; concave chamfer on the underbowl; arches on the sides of the octagonal pedestal base, with a moulding at top and bottom; lower base is octagonal-to-square. Crude wooden font of octagonal shape; appears modern. There is a holy-water stoup inside, to the east of the south doorway; medieval? [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here]. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shield, flower and leaf motifs." [NB: the church may go back to early Norman times but we have no information on the earlier font(s)]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.615097, 0.600574

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 54.35″ N, 0° 36′ 2.06″ E

UTM: 31U 337558 5832158

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat; appears modern

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810