Surlingham No. 2 / Suterlingeham / Sutherlingaham

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view of church exterior

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Remains of Church of St Saviour:
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INFORMATION

FontID: 18428SUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Saviour [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Church Location: Surlingham, Norfolk NR14 7BY
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located approximately 8 km ESE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Henstede [aka Henstead]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Norman
Font Notes:
There are eight entries for Surlingham in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG3006/surlingham/] [accessed 24 August 2020] none of which mentions priest or church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) names two parish churches in Surlingham; on the second he writes: "the advowson of the parochial church of St Saviour in Surlingham [...] was given with the church of St. Mary there, to the abbess and nuns at Carrow, by Norwich, by Maud de Multon, lady of the manor, and patroress of them both; and immediately after the gift, the rectory of St. Saviour, was appropriated to that house, which to its dissolution received all the great and small tithes belonging to it, paying a yearly stipend out of them to a serving chaplain here: and it continued a distinct perpetual curacy till lately: in 1630 [...] there being no vicarage endowed, it was never entered in the King's Books: the Abbess in order to get it appropriated, pretended that it was only a chapel belonging to the church of St. Mary; but that was contradicted by the return then made, and entered in Norwich Domesday Book; where it is said, that Surlingham St. Saviour had the same patroness with St. Mary, and that though they had now valued it with it, yet heretofore it was a mother-church, distinct from the other church, and had baptism and burial; for the Lady Maud de Multon, formerly patroness of the same, declared that all infants born in that parish, were baptised there, and that her own brother, and many others, lie buried in that church, and that the parishioners have been buried there immemorially." [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here] [cf. Index entry for Surlingham No. 1 for the church of St. Mary's]. [NB: we have no information on the font of this medieval church] [cf. Index entry for Surlingham No. 1 for the other parish church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.60939, 1.406683
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 33.8″ N, 1° 24′ 24.06″ E
UTM: 31U 392113 5830012

REFERENCES

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