Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8989 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | St Botolph's Church, Stow Bedon |
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Summary
This church only has a nave and a chancel as the west tower fell down in the 18th century. It features Early English and Perpendicular windows but much of the external appearance is owed to the restorations of 1852-53. Inside, there is an Early English piscina and a big octagonal font in the Perpendicular style. Investigations in the churchyard have recovered sherds of prehistoric, Iron Age, Late Saxon and medieval pottery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 9614 9556 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL99NE |
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| Parish: | STOW BEDON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
According to (S1), this was built in 1852 incorporating from the old church two lancets in north wall of chancel (now filled with stained glass from Hildersham church, Cambridgeshire, destroyed 1940), two Early English (13th century) windows in nave north wall, Perpendicular (15th century) windows in north wall (one being partly rebuilt), Early English piscina, part of west door corbels; ancient tombs in churchyard; bell of 1797. The old church had a square tower which fell pre 1820, three bells, chancel, thatched nave, font, and screen. The Spelman memorials were there in the 16th century, but gone by the 18th century.
(Compare (S2) containing (S3). Not yet visited).
E. Rose (NAU) 20 March 1981.
1 January 1981. Extreme east end churchyard - only modern graves (indicates medieval settlement around old church?)
Context 1: in molehills; two lightly flint-gritted ?prehistoric sherds, five medieval coarse. Body/rim (now broken in two) of medieval bowl with straight sides and moulded rim, internal sooting.
Finds held by NCM.
Identifications by A. Rogerson (NAU) March 1981.
See site notes in file.
19 May 1983. In churchyard, molehill 10m southeast of southeast quoin of chancel.
Bodysherd of flint and sand tempered prehistoric pottery.
Identified by F. Healy (NAU). Found by A. Rogerson (NAU).
Held by NCM
A. Rogerson (NAU) 24 June 1983.
31 and 21 May 1998. Observation of electricity cables trench in east part of churchyard.
Prehistoric flint.
Iron Age, Roman, Late Saxon and medieval sherds.
See list in file.
Churchyard wall exposed.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 22 May 1998.
Monument Types
- WALL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CHURCH (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- QUERN (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- PISCINA (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- WINDOW (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- WINDOW (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A.. 1986. NHER TL 9695A-B (NLA 173/DAQ11-12) 30-JUN-1986. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, W. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 675. |
| --- | Leaflet: Roy Tricker, Simon Cotton. St. Botolph, Stow Bedon.. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2016. Compromise suggested in church pews dispute. 29 March. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Bryant, T. H. 1898. Hundred of Wayland. The Churches of Norfolk. Vol I. pp 78-83. |
| <S2> | Publication: Cotton. [unknown]. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Ladbrooke. [unknown]. |
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