Barton Turf is a village and
civil parish
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in the
English
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* English people
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county
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of
Norfolk
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. It is 20 km north-east of the city of
Norwich
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, on the northwestern edge of
Barton Broad
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, the second largest of the
Norfolk Broads
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. In primary local government the area is in the
district
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of
North Norfolk
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.
The villages name means 'Barley farm/settlement'. 'Turf' is a late 14th century addition, probably indicating that turf cutting was an important local industry.
The civil parish, which includes the whole of Barton Broad and the smaller village of
Irstead
Irstead is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Barton Turf, in the English county of Norfolk.
Irstead is located north of Acle and north-east of Norwich, along the River Ant.
History
Irstead's name is of Anglo-Saxon ...
at its southern end, has an area of 10.86 km
2. In the
2001 census it had a population of 480 in 181 households, the population decreasing to 467 at the 2011 Census.
Barton Turf's
St Michael and All Angels Church, Barton Turf
St Michael and All Angels is the Church of England parish church of Barton Turf in the county of Norfolk in England. See Insidhere It stands about a kilometre south-west of the village in the midst of a plantation of trees. Particularly notab ...
, about a mile 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
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.
The 18th-century antiquarian
Antony Norris lived in Barton Turf, and is buried at the church.
Barton Hall
Barton Hall, Barton Turf is a house owned by Sir
Sidney Peel
Colonel Sir Sidney Cornwallis Peel, 1st Baronet, (1870–1938), was a British Army officer, barrister and financier. He was also for the coalition government term 1918–1922, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP). For the 19 years until dea ...
's noble wife and is a Grade II (starting category)
listed building
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with a typical, of a former manorial farmhouse, fishpond and array of outhouses around a courtyard to the front.
[
It was built 1742 with two fronts later remodelled.] Its walls are brick, partly plastered to appear ashlar
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Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ...
(regular, grand stone courses).[ Its roofs are of plain tiles and ]pantile
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A pantile-covered roo ...
s.[ A grand list of 18th-century revival ]classical architecture
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follows in its listing such as detailing its tympanum, entablature
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, pediment
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, quoin
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s, rustication, string course
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by cornice
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and rounded window within intercolumniation
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.[
]
War memorial
Barton Turf War Memorial takes the form of a brass plaque in St. Michael's Church which holds the following names for the First World War
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:
* Lieutenant Thomas F. Preston (1889–1917), No. 53 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps
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* Sergeant Donald Salmons (1890–1917), 13th Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment
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, Canadian Army
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* Boy-First Class Frederick M. Dunton (1897–1915), ''HMS Clan MacNaugton''
* Driver Frederick A. Bailey (1892–1918), 207th Field Company, Royal Engineers
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* Private Charles Yaxley (1897–1916), 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment
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* Private Thomas I. Watts (1898–1918), 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
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The regiment served in many war ...
* Private Stanley Drake (1892–1918), 21st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
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* Private R. Jack Yaxley (1891–1918), 1st Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
* Private Richard Allard (1892–1916), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
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* Private Walter Allard (1894–1916), 8th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
* Private Horace Yaxley (1881–1917), 8th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
* Private John W. Dunton (1883–1916), 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
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And, the following for the Second World War
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:
* Leading-Stoker William J. Blake (1909–1943), '' HMS Beverley''
Gallery
Image:BartonTurfDolly.jpg, Barton Turf has given its name to a traditional Corn dolly
Corn dollies or corn mothers are a form of straw work made as part of harvest customs of Europe before mechanisation.
Scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries theorized that before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was be ...
which consists of two vertical baskets.
Image:Barton Turf rood screen.jpg, Some paintings from the 15th-century Rood Screen
The rood screen (also choir screen, chancel screen, or jubé) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture. It is typically an ornate partition between the chancel and nave, of more or less open tracery constructed of wood, stone, o ...
in St Michael and All Angels church, Barton Turf
Image:Barton Turf 13 Thrones close up.JPG, Thrones
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Throne, Thrones or The Throne may also refer to:
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* The Throne (group), collaboration pseudonym for rappers Jay Z and Kanye West (as on Drake's "Pop Style")
* Thron ...
(angels) from the 15th-century Rood Screen
The rood screen (also choir screen, chancel screen, or jubé) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture. It is typically an ornate partition between the chancel and nave, of more or less open tracery constructed of wood, stone, o ...
in St Michael and All Angels church, Barton Turf
Image:Barton Turf 11 Cherubim close up.JPG, Cherubim
A cherub (; : cherubim; ''kərūḇ'', pl. ''kərūḇīm'') is one type of supernatural being in the Abrahamic religions. The numerous depictions of cherubim assign to them many different roles, such as protecting the entrance of the Garden o ...
from the 15th-century Rood Screen
The rood screen (also choir screen, chancel screen, or jubé) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture. It is typically an ornate partition between the chancel and nave, of more or less open tracery constructed of wood, stone, o ...
in St Michael and All Angels church, Barton Turf
Image:Barton Turf Dominions Seraphim.JPG, Iconoclastic
Iconoclasm ()From . ''Iconoclasm'' may also be considered as a back-formation from ''iconoclast'' (Greek: εἰκοκλάστης). The corresponding Greek word for iconoclasm is εἰκονοκλασία, ''eikonoklasia''. is the social belie ...
damage from the Reformation
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, 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
*
* http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Barton%20Turf
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