East Beckham / Becchcha / Becham / Becsa
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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery
Scene Description: the remains of old St. Helen's churchyard
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2113083] [accessed 18 September 2013]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: the ruins of old St. Helen's
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2113079] [accessed 18 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18689BEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen [in ruins]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SW of Cromer, 38 km N of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (church here in ruins for a long time)
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Becchcha", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810) reports "a church endowed with 2 acres and an half of land" in it; this author (ibid.) adds: "The church was a rectory [...] Here was the guild of St. Helen, to whom it is likely the church was dedicated." White's Directory of 1845 reports: "The Church (St. Helen,) has long been in ruins, finely mantled with ivy." Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note that West Beckham All Saints' was "demolished 1890 to make way for the new church, as was St. Helen, East Beckham". The new church of St. Helen and All Saints, West Beckham, did not inherit either of the earlier fonts; instead it got its own late 19th-century horrid plastic-looking font by Harbeston & Faulkner.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 379517 5859310
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 85-87 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78414] [accessed 18 September 2013]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 714
- White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845, [www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/b/beckham_east/white1845.shtml] [accessed 18 September 2013]