Barton Bendish No. 3 / B'tuna / Bertun / Bertuna / Bettuna

The Domesday entry for "Bertuna" cited in Blomefield (1802-1810) reports "a church endowed with 12 acres", and this author notes: "All-Saints. This church stands between the churches of St. Mary and St. Andrew, in Barton, and is built of flint and boulder; an ancient pile, supported by buttresses of brick; of a body, or isle, in length about 47 feet, and in breadth about 16; the top is camerated and impanelled with wainscoat, and covered with reed. Here seems to have been a little chapel on the north side of it, by the pillars, &c. This body or nave is separated by a screen from the chancel, which is about 31 feet in length and about 16 in breadth, and covered with thatch. [...] At the west end of the nave is a four square tower of flint, &c. and quoins of free stone, embattled with brick. In this tower hang three large ancient bells." The date of the original church is not given in Blomefield (ibid.) but he reports that the patronage of this church was in the hands of the Priory of Dumow, in Essex, ca. 1104, during the reign of Henri I [i.e., 1100-1135], and the first recorded rector of St. Mary's was "John Clare, presented by the prior and convent of Dunemawe", in 1325. White's Directory (1854: 623-624) notes: "Barton had formerly three [churches], but that dedicated to All Saints has long been dilapidated, and its rectory consolidated with that of St. Mary," [source: transciption by A.J. Carter in http://apling.freeservers.com/Villages/BartonBendish54.htm [accessed 13 August 2013]]. The entry for Barton Bendish All Saints' church in L'Estrange's book on Norfolk bells (1874) reads: "Ruined. In 1788, the church being quite ruinous, no part remaining but the walls, a faculty was granted to sell three bells weighing about twenty-two cwt. The money arising from the sale was to be applied to the repairs of S. Mary's church, to which the parishioners resorted. These bells are now at Whitwell church." Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1831 reports: "The Church of all Saints is desecrated".