Beeston St. Andrew / Besetuna / Beston

INFORMATION

Font ID: 19140BEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: [NB: we have not been able to locate the remains -if any- of this church]
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The disappeared church was located S Sprowston, 8 km NNE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Taverham
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-period church here)
Font Notes:
There are five entries for Beeston [St. Andrew] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2513/beeston-st-andrew/] [accessed 10 April 2014], one of which reports half a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes that the 'moiety' here was in 1086 in the part that Ralph de Beaufoe [aka Bellofago] held, "of which a freeman had been deprived", i.e., the holder before 1066; "The Church was dedicated to St. Andrew, and had two medieties, in the patronage of the Mounteneys, and both granted by Robert de Mounteney, son of Arnold de Monteney, by fine in the 54th of Henry III. to Geffrey, prior, and the convent of Peterston". Blomefield (ibid.), writing in the mid 1700s, does not mention anything about the decaying of this church, but it would be occurring soon thereafter as Bell (1836) reports the church as "desecrated", and Wilson's Gazetteer of 1870-72 declares it "in ruins". [NB: we have no information on the font of the old church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 387588 5837789

REFERENCES

  • Bell, James, A new and comprehensive gazetteer of England and Wales [...] illustrated by a series of maps [...] forming a complete county atlas of England, Glasgow: A. Fullarton & Co., 1836, vol. 1: 179
  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 403-405 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78702] [accessed 10 April 2014]
  • Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, [transcribed in www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5160 [accessed 10 April 2014]]