Rackheath Magna / Great Rackheath / Racheia / Racheisham / Rakeia
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/712245] [accessed 16 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
symbol - shield - coat of arms - Pettus
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140417029_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 September 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/712245] [accessed 16 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
angel - cherub - head
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 September 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/712245] [accessed 16 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - torus-scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 September 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/712245] [accessed 16 April 2014]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: several
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/712245] [accessed 16 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/712217] [accessed 16 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 September 1991 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Rackheath All Saints church from SE [6735] 1991-09-01.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: a samll part of the font is visible in the front right-hand corner of the photograph
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/712243] [accessed 16 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2004 by John Salmon ;www.geograph.org.uk/photo/312433] [accessed 16 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/712245] [accessed 16 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01185RAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1639
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century, Post-Reformation
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant since 1970s]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: redundant church leased to the Norfolk Churches Trust
Church Address: Rackheath, Norfolk NR13 6QT
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 8 km NE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Taverham
Additional Comments: painted font (the present one [cf. FontNotes]) -- disappeared font? (the one from the late 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Racheath [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2714/rackheath/] [accessed 16 April 2014], one of which reports 0.5 churches in it [NB: it must be the 'moiety' associated with Beeston, as it was in Ralph de Beaufour's holding]. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "There were formerly two distinct towns, one called Great Rackheath, the other Little Rackheath, and each village had its church. [...] Eudo de Racheia, Geffrey, and Simon his brothers, then conveyed to Peter, and his heirs, the advowson of the church of Racheia by fine; and in the fourth of King John, a fine was levied of lands here between Geff. son of Alice, petent, and William de Rakeia, tenant." The conveyance of the advowson took place, according to Rye (1885), on the 8th of Richard I, i.e., 1197, by which time the church here must have in existence. More information on the churches of both Magna and Parva is given in the Parva entry in Blomefield (ibid.): "The Church of Rackheath Magna, is a rectory dedicated to AllSaints [...] Edith, daughter and coheir to her brother Geff. son of Peter le Constable, recovered the right of patronage of Rackey Parva church, in the 7th of Edward I" [i.e., 1279]. The present font here is described in Cox (1907) as a hexagonal [octagonal?] font that bears the arms of Pettus and is adorned after a 'debased Renaissance fashion' with cherubs. Inscribed with the initials of the decorator and the date 1639 [NB: C&H give the wrong century, the 16th., in their listing on p. 170, unless the date of the inscription refers specifically to the painting of the font ["...ornavit..."]. Listed in Bond (1908) as a Post-Reformation font. Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note that Cautley dates it to 1639. Illustrated in Knott (2009).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1991
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 388940 5838408
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.684199, 1.35701
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 41′ 3.11″ N, 1° 21′ 25.24″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: polygonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: basin side?
Inscription Text: "B.P. ornavit 1639"
Inscription Source: Cox (1907: 183)
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 446-451 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78716] [accessed 16 April 2014]
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 451-453 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78717] [accessed 16 April 2014]
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 265
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, [?]
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 170, 173, 183
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 642
- Rye, Walter, A short calendar of the feet of fines for Norfolk, In the reigns of Ricahrd I., John, Henry III., and Eadward I., Norwich: Agas H. Goose & Co., 1885, p. 3