West Barsham / Barseham

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: the Norman (?) portal; Saxon (?) windows above

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westbarsham/westbarsham.htm] [accessed 6 June 2013]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: the Norman portal and the added 13th-century surounding arch

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westbarsham/westbarsham.htm] [accessed 6 June 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the mid-19th century restoration did away with its 11th-century tower

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westbarsham/westbarsham.htm] [accessed 6 June 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westbarsham/westbarsham.htm] [accessed 6 June 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westbarsham/westbarsham.htm] [accessed 6 June 2013]

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view of font

Scene Description: the 18th-century font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westbarsham/westbarsham.htm] [accessed 6 June 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15237BAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Grove Road, Barsham, Norfolk NR21 9NT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6 km NNW of Fakenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundreds of Gallow and Brothercross

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-19810) writes: "There are three towns of the name of Barsham, that is a ham by a bar, that is, on or by the hills. In Domesday book they are not distinguished by the appellation of East, West, and North, but included under the general name of Barsham. Hugo held then a manor of the Earl Warren; Toke, who was lord of it in the Confessor's time, being deprived of it. It then contained four carucates of land, ten villains, and twenty-six bordarers, with four servi, four carucates in demean, and five amongst the men, &c. three acres of meadow, 4 mills, &c. six socmen had half a carucate, and three bordarers, with two carucates, and a church endowed with 100 acres [...] This I take to be West Barsham [...] from this Hugh, who was lord at the survey, descended Sir Ralph de Wauci, lord; and father of Hugh de Wauci, who by deed, sans date, confirmed to the priory of Castleacre his land of West-Barsham, and all he had therein, with the church of that village, and all the appertenances in pure alms [...] the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in this town". Blomefield (ibid.) names "William Newton" as first recorded vicar here, in 1220 "presented by the prior and convent of Castleacre." According to English Heritage [Listing NGR: TF8302242092], the present font, round basin on a baluster stem, is 18th-century. [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the original font of the early church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.866878, 0.828397

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 0.76″ N, 0° 49′ 42.23″ E

UTM: 31U 353825 5859671

REFERENCES

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