Westbriggs / Westbriggs / Westbruge

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Tottenhill St Botolph's Norman south door [5475] 1975-09-11.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2013

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1741814] [accessed 9 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Tottenhill St Botolph's Norman south door [5476] 1975-09-11.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2013

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1741805] [accessed 9 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Tottenhill St Botolph's church from SE [7286] 1995-10-28.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2013

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1741799] [accessed 9 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1741816] [accessed 9 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end of the aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1741834] [accessed 9 September 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1741837] [accessed 9 September 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18654BRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph

Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A134, near Wormegay

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Clackclose

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th - 17th century,

Church Notes: West Briggs' St. Botolph became the parish church when the nearby church of Totenhill gell into ruin

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "This little, and now almost depopulated, village adjoins to Wirmegay; in the survey it was wrote Westbruge. Turchetill was lord in the Confessor's time, but the Conqueror gave it to Hermerus de Ferrers. [...] In the Confessor's time, there were 2 beasts of burden, at the survey, one; then 10 cows, at the survey 13; always paunage for 6 hogs, one church with 5 acres of land, then 120 sheep, at the survey 60; it was always valued at 60s. [...] The Church of Westbriggs is dedicated to St. Botulph; it is a small edifice, with a nave and chancel; the nave is covered with lead, the chancel with tile; at the west end of the nave is a little foursquare tower of rag-stone, &c. embattled with free-stone, a shaft covered with lead, but here is no bell; over the door, on the south side, as you enter the church, is a cross like that of a Knight Templar. [...] Richer de Fulius, rector about 1190, presented by Hugh, prior of Castleacre." The present font here consists of an octagonal font with plain vertical sides, a chamfered underbowl; raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base and a splaying lower base; two-step plinth, also octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal reinforcement; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.670406, 0.443959

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 13.46″ N, 0° 26′ 38.25″ E

UTM: 31U 327175 5838673

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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