Bungay No. 2
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view of church exterior - east view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2002 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bungaysm.htm] [accessed 1 March 2012]
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view of font
Scene Description: the 18th-century (?) replacement font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2002
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in 2002 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bungaysm.htm] [accessed 1 March 2012]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 18th-century (?) replacement font and the modern cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2002 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bungaysm.htm] [accessed 1 March 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17948BUN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [aka Lady Church] [formerly the church of a Benedictine Nunnery] [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: St. Mary Street, Bungay, NR35 1AU
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 9 km W of Beccles
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Date: ca. 1160?
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and modern font
Church Notes: now redundant and under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust
Suckling (1846-1848) writes: "In the year 1160 [...] Roger de Glanville and the Countess Gundreda his wife [...] laid the foundations of a Benedictine Nunnery at Bungay; dedicating its church to Saint Mary, and the house to the honour of God and the Holy Cross. [...] The Church of St. Mary [w]as parochial, previous to the dissolution of the nunnery, as well as conventual [...] It is yet called 'Lady Church' by old inhabitants in the place. At the great fire in 1688 it suffered considerable damage; but the statement of the Brief that it was burnt to the ground is an exaggeration. The old benches, and possibly the font—for the present one is modern—might have been consumed". The present for consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with deeply-carved human demi-figures and floral motifs on the sides, and a pattern of ribs around the underbowl; raised on a polygonal pedestal base ornamented with flute pattern. Knott (2002) gives a 18th-century date for the present font. The wooden cover is of two volumes: the lower one is an octagonal prism, the sides decorated with symbols inscribed in rhomboid panels; the upper volume is a tall octagonal pyramid.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.4556,
1.4379
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 27′ 20.16″ N,
1° 26′ 16.44″ E
UTM: 31U 393856 5812861
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
