Worlingham Parva

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17946WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [disppeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: the old church may have been unused by the end of the 15thC [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km E of Beccles, effectively now a suburb of the latter
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich at the time?]
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Additional Comments: disappeared font of the disappeared church
Font Notes:
Suckling (1846-1848) notes that two churches are recorded in this parish in the Domesday Survey of 1086, and adds: "The two churches which formerly existed in Worlingham [...] were dedicated respectively to All Saints and St. Peter. The latter structure has been down many years, and was probably not used after 1492, when the two parishes were consolidated. The register of Butley Priory says that the church of St. Peter of Worlingham was appropriated to that establishment by John Grey, Bishop of Norwich. [...] The assignment must, therefore, have taken place prior to the year 1200, for that prelate died on the 2nd of June in that year." Suckling (ibid.) does not mention a font in either of the churches here. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here]. [cf. Index entry for Worlingham Magna for Worlingham All Saints'].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 404523 5812241

REFERENCES

  • Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=75120] [accessed 29 February 2012]