Broomsthorpe / Brunsthorpe / Bunestorp

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18490BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John [destroyed in the 16thC?]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The site of this disappeared hamlet was approximately 10 km WSW of Fakenham
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundreds of Gallow and Brothercross
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
There is no mention of a church or priest in the Domesday entry for "Bunestorp". Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Here is no church, and it appears to have been destroyed before the reign of Queen Elizabeth. [...] In the reign of Edward I. the prior of Symplingham, or Sempringham, held this church, appropriated to the convent", thereby documenting the existence of a church here between 1272 and 1307, the dates for Edward I's reign. Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "Here was the gild of St. John, to whom the church was probably dedicated." White's gazetteer of 1845 describes Broomsthorpe as "a small churchless parish [...] containing only 10 souls".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 346328 5853571

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 7: 5-7 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78290] [accessed 4 June 2013]
  • White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845, [transcribed in www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/b/broomsthorpe/white1845.shtml [accessed 4 June 2013]]