St Mary, Bagthorpe, Norfolk

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Location

(52°51′26″N, 0°39′52″E)

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Site Location

Bagthorpe

National Grid Reference

TF 795 322

Boundaries

pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Norfolk
now Norfolk

Diocese

medieval North Elmham (c.950-1071), Thetford (1071-94), Norwich (from 1094)
now Norwich

Dedication

medieval St Mary
now St Mary

Type of building/monument

Parish church, redundant

Report authors

Jill A Franklin

Photographers

Jill A Franklin

Visit Date

1986

09 Sep 2017

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Feature Sets

Description

Rebuilt in 1853-4 with 13th and 14thc-style mouldings, St Mary's now contains no other Romanesque sculpture than its simple font and, possibly, some corbels reset in the vestry. According to Samuel Lewis, writing in 1848 before its reconstruction, the church was then 'in the Early English style.'

History

From 1086, William of Warenne was tenant-in-chief of Bagthorpe, a small settlement in Brothercross hundred. Before the Conquest, Toki of Walton had been lord. Domesday records one and a half churches in its possession.

Features

Interior Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

Similar knotwork motifs on fonts occur in the county at Sculthorope, Shernbourne, Toftrees, Castle Rising, and at Preston in Suffolk.

The vestry corbels are not mentioned in Pevsner.

St Mary's is in the care of the Norfolk Churches Trust.

Bibliography

Historic England List Number 1077840

Samuel Lewis, ed., A Topographical History of England , 4 vols, London 1848: 1, 128-32.

N. Pevsner and Bill Wilson, The Buildings of England, Norfolk: North-West and South, Harmondsworth 1962, 2^nd edn 1999, rev. 2000, 2: 63, 190.

A. Williams and G.H. Martin (ed), Domesday Book: A Complete Translation, Harmondsworth 1992/2002, 1095.