Southburgh / Berch / Berk by Hingham / Berk Magna / South Bergh / South Berk / South Burgh / Southbergh / Barrow

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph January 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southburgh/southburgh.htm] [accessed 27 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph January 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southburgh/southburgh.htm] [accessed 27 March 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph January 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southburgh/southburgh.htm] [accessed 27 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1482620] [accessed 27 March 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15183SOU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Lane, Southburgh, Norfolk, IP25 7TF

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNW of Hingham, 24 km WSW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred and half of Mitford

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for [South] Burgh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0004/south-burgh/] [accessed 27 March 2014], neither of which reports a church or cleric in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In the 9th of King John [i.e., 1208], Thomas de Benefeld was lord of this manor, held of the Earl Warren, and conveyed to Walter de Bergh the advowson of the church of St. Andrew of South-Berk", which is the earliest reference to this church we have found. Blomefield's (ibid.) adds: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Andrew [...] John occurs rector in the 14th of Edward I". The present font is illustrated in the context of the west end of tha nave in Knott (2006): a polygonal font, probably the 19th-century replacement introduced in the re-building of this medieval church in the 1870s/1880s [NB: we have no information on the original font of the medieval church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.604577, 0.956803

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 16.48″ N, 0° 57′ 24.49″ E

UTM: 31U 361639 5830245

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-25 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.