Heckingham

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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 5

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/heckingham/heckingham.htm] [accessed 7 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: condemned and walled up north entranceway; a few details remain

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 April 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Heckingham St Gregory's Norman north door [5485] 1976-04-17.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south porch

Scene Description: the porch itself was added in the 15thC

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Heckingham St Gregory's church south porch [3326] 1940-03-09.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Heckingham St Gregory's Norman south door [3324] 1940-03-09.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Tower is round at base, with later octagonal top"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 July 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Heckingham St Gregory's church south side [1766] 1937-07-11.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph of a 2014 drawing by Robert Wilkes

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Norman apsidal chancel with flat buttresses"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Heckingham St Gregory's church from SE [3325] 1940-03-09.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/heckingham/heckingham.htm] [accessed 7 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Scene Description: showing the old 17th-century cover on the font [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Scene Description: showing the old 17th-century cover on the font [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: Pencil and brown watercolour by John Cotman [reproduced on the Whitworth Art Gallery web site www.ooklnet.com/web/read_more/196960/Font+at+St+Gregory's,+Heckingham,+Norfolk [accessed 11 September 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01655HEC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gregory

Church Patron Saints: St. Gregory the Great

Church Location: Church Lane, Heckingham, Norfolk NR14 6QT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 3 km E of Loddon, 8 km SE of Beccles

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Clavering [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the fotographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937, 1940 and 1976. We are also grateful to Robert Wilkes for the image of his 2014 drawing of this church

Church Notes: round-tower church, originally [upper end re-built later as octagonal]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for Calvering [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM3898/heckingham/] [accessed 12 December 2014]; one of which parts, under the lordship of Godric, the steward, reports a church and church lands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) transcribes the entry for this place in the Domesday survey, and notes that it had come into the hands of "Godric, the Conqueror's steward" with "a church, endowed with 8 acres". Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The Church was a rectory, and is dedicated to St. Gregory [...] In 1328, Paul de Oxwich, instituted vicar". A plain font at this church appears in Cotman (1838). The font is described and illustrated in Paley (1844): the tall square basin is totally plain and rests on a central square shaft and four corner shafts "the capitals of which are ornamented with volutes". Paley (ibid.) dates it as a Late Norman font and describes the lid as "cumbrous and tasteless cover of the seventeenth century, which is now [ca. 1844] decayed and unfit for use". Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Norman, plain square bowl, on an octagonal stumpy central stem and four squat little columns with volute capitals at the corners." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2004): "The font is Norman, but an engraving of the 18th century shows a more modern font - probably the Victorians wanted to make the interior more Norman than it was already, and found this one somewhere else." [NB: the basin appears to be original, but the supports and the lower base and plinth may be later additions, some of the parts re-carved, perhaps -- the church itself goes back to pre-Conquest times [cf. supra], so it is possible that the basin may have been replaced at a later date, only to be re-installed when the Victorians restored the church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.5352, 1.5144

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 6.72″ N, 1° 30′ 51.84″ E

UTM: 31U 399236 5821604

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Basin Depth: 21.5 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 57.5 x 57.5 cm

Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844: unpaged)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: reported and illustrated in 1817 and 1844 sources [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013

Cotman, John Sell, Specimens of Architectural Remains in Various Counties in England, but principally in Norfolk, London: H.G. Bohn, 1838

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-07 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999