Stow Bardolph / Stou / Stow Bardolf

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: EXT NE B&W photograph taken 31 October 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stow Bardolph Holy Trinity church from NE [7097] 1993-10-31.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2013] PHOTOS digital photograph January 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stowbardolph/stowbardolph.htm] [accessed 26 August 2013]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 October 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stow Bardolph Holy Trinity church from NE [7097] 1993-10-31.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stowbardolph/stowbardolph.htm] [accessed 26 August 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the modern font and cover in the foreground [west end]

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stowbardolph/stowbardolph.htm] [accessed 26 August 2013]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font and cover [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stowbardolph/stowbardolph.htm] [accessed 26 August 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15192STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: Lynn Road, Stow Bardolph, Norfolk PE34 3HT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 3 km NNE of Downham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred and half of Clackclose

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes of Stow-Bardolph: "On the deposition of Turchetel, who was a great and powerful lord, in the reign of the Confessor, King William I. granted it with many other towns of that lord, to Hermerus de Ferrers. Before the conquest there were [ennumerated here the land, beasts, people, etc.] All this was valued then at 8l. and there was a church endowed with 53 acres of land, valued at 3s. [...] The Church of Stow Bardolph is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and consists of a nave and a chancel, and a broad, but low, foursquare tower built of carr and rag stone, with buttresses of brick, in which hang five large tuneable bells. [...] The nave is in length about 47 feet and in breadth about 24; the roof is arched or camerated, plaistered, and covered with reed; at the west end is a neat stone font, with a cover of oak carved and painted, on which is this shield"[NB: the shield is illustrated in Blomefield]. The present font, like the cover, is modern; it consists of an octagonal basin raised on an octagonal stem and splaying lower base, raised on a quadrangular plinth. Towering wooden cover of open-work. [NB: the base of the tower is said to be 12th-century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.624454, 0.404605

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 28.03″ N, 0° 24′ 16.58″ E

UTM: 31U 324330 5833658

REFERENCES

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