Beck / Beck Hall / Bek

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18712BEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Paul [disappeared] -- cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paul
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: [disappeared hamlet; was located near Bylaugh -- Beck Hall, formerly the farmhouse at Holkham Estate, survives on Billingford Road, Foxley, Norfolk NR20 4QZ]
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Hall
Font Notes:
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes that Beck was "at the survey [i.e., Domesday] a village, an hamlet, or beruite, belonging to Alan Earl of Richmond's manor of Below" [i.e., Bylaugh], that had by 1240 "an hospital founded by William de Beck, for poor travellers". Two chapels are mentioned in relation to this hospital, one dedicated to St. Paul and another dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr, that of St. Paul under the patronage of the rector of Bylaugh St. Mary's. [NB: we have no information on whether or not the Beck chapel(s) had any parochial functions].

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 189-191 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78445] [accessed 30 September 2013]