Buckenham Parva / Buckenham-near-Tofts / Buckenham Tofts / Bukenham / Bukenham Parva / Little Buckenham / Bukenham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18381BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew [abandoned after the Reformation; in ruins by the 18th century]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: It was located 10 NE of Brandon, 10 km WSW of Watton, 13 km NNW of Thetford
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Grimeshoe [aka Gimeshou]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1300 church here)
Font Notes:
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church has been so long demolished, that the very site of it is not known; it is said to be about the upper end of the canal in the gardens, near the garden-house; it was dedicated to St. Andrew", and names "William de Caston" as its first recorded rector, in 1300". The two entries in Domesday (fol. 235, 281), under 'Bukenham', list neither church nor priest in them. [NB: we have no information on the font from the old demolished church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 344687 5821520

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 2: 266-271 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78063] [accessed 13 March 2013]