Tasburgh / Taseburc / Taseburch / Taseburgh

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes of a church that "stands in the fortification" which gives Tasburgh its name; "The church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, who had her gild here; the steeple is round and hath four bells in it; (fn. 3) there is a north porch; the nave is leaded, and the chancel tiled." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Eustace le Brett" as the first recorded rector here, presented in 1299, and notes that the gift of a "new covering for the font" given by Henry Spawnton in 1505 is recorded in the parish registers [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of this font cover -- cf. infra]. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) describe the font and cover of this church: "Font. Perp[endicular]. Octagonal. The stem has panels with two fleurons in each, one on top of the other. Bowl with a big flower in each panel.- Font cover. Small, Jacobean, just with an openwork obelisk." Illustrated in Knott (2008). The Tasburgh community web site [www.tasburgh.com] informs: "in 1938 a beautiful font dating from the 14th century was brought from the disused Norwich church of St Simon and St Jude." [cf. Index entry for Norwich No. 28]. [NB: the church at Tasburgh is believed to be of pre-Conquest date, ca. 1050, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) here]. [cf. Index entry for Norwich No. 28 for the earlier location and images of this font].