Barton Turf
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Barton Turf is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is Template:Convert north-east of the city of Norwich, on the north-western edge of Barton Broad, the second largest of the Norfolk Broads.[1] The parish is in the district of North Norfolk.[2]
The civil parish, which includes the whole of Barton Broad and the smaller village of Irstead at its southern end, has an area of Template:Convert. In the 2001 census it had a population of 480 in 181 households, the population decreasing to 467 at the 2011 Census.[3]
The church of St Michael and All Angels Church, Barton Turf, about Template:Convert from the clustered village centre, has a large, ornate medieval painted rood screen such as many medieval parishes who could afford fine artisans once had, but which have rarely survived the English Reformation.
The 18th-century antiquarian Antony Norris lived in Barton Turf, and is buried at the church.[4]
Barton Hall
Barton Hall, Barton Turf is a house owned by Sir Sidney Peel's noble wife and is a Grade II (starting category) listed building with a typical, of a former manorial farmhouse, fishpond and array of outhouses around a courtyard to the front.[5]
It was built 1742 with two fronts later remodelled.[5] Its walls are brick, partly plastered to appear ashlar (regular, grand stone courses).[5] Its roofs are of plain tiles and pantiles.[5] A grand list of 18th-century revival classical architecture follows in its listing such as detailing its tympanum, entablature, pediment, quoins, rustication, string course by cornice and rounded window within intercolumniation.[5]
Gallery
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Barton Turf has given its name to a traditional Corn dolly which consists of two vertical baskets.
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Some paintings from the 15th-century Rood Screen in St Michael and All Angels church, Barton Turf
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Thrones (angels) from the 15th-century Rood Screen in St Michael and All Angels church, Barton Turf
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Cherubim from the 15th-century Rood Screen in St Michael and All Angels church, Barton Turf
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Iconoclastic damage from the Reformation, St Michael and All Angels church, Barton Turf
References
External links
- High resolution images of the Barton Turf Rood Screen
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Barton Turf
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- ↑ Ordnance Survey (2005). OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
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