Ingoldisthorpe / Eulvesthorp / Ingaldisthorp

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2012 by David Nice [http://davidnice.blogspot.ca/2012/09/norfolk-churches-ingoldisthorpe-to.html] [accessed 7 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Permission requested (e-mail/comment posted in blog site 7 April 2014)

design element - motifs - braid

Scene Description: around the upper side of the basin, except where cut off

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons?

Scene Description: around the lower side of the basin, except where cut off

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: on the north side of the font -- a large one, now truncated

Image Source: digital photograph taken in September 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ingoldisthorpe/ingoldisthorpe.htm] [accessed 7 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - interlace - linked rings

Scene Description: on the east side -- mostly circles interlaced; only part remains after the corners were sliced off to make the square basin octagonal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI

design element - patterns - reticular

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The clerestory windows alternate between two lights and quatrefoil circles"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 16 June 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/I/Ingoldisthorpe St Michael All Angels church [7333] 1996-06-16.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken in September 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ingoldisthorpe/ingoldisthorpe.htm] [accessed 7 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken in September 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ingoldisthorpe/ingoldisthorpe.htm] [accessed 7 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font seen at the far [west] end

Image Source: digital photograph taken in September 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ingoldisthorpe/ingoldisthorpe.htm] [accessed 7 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: just east of the tower doorway

Image Source: digital photograph taken in September 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ingoldisthorpe/ingoldisthorpe.htm] [accessed 7 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 01676ING

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [aka All Saints and St. Michael]

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael / All Saints & St. Michael

Church Location: Manor Close, Ingoldisthorpe, Norfolk PE31 6SR

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located about 12 km N of King's Lynn

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Smethdon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1996

Church Notes: name of village is pronounced 'Inglethorpe'

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Ingoldisthorpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF6932/ingoldisthorpe/] [accessed 7 April 2014], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Michael, has a nave, a north and south isle, and a chancel covered with lead, and at the west end a square tower, with 3 bells, and directly before the south porch, at about 15 feet distance, stands a stone cross It is a rectory", and the first recorded rector is named "Andrew de Baskervyle, presented by Sir Robert de Walkefare, Knt.", in 1327. Earlier rectors of this church is, however, are noted in Blomefield (ibid.): "n 1275, there was an agreement between the prior of Binham, and Sir Edm. de Munpinzun, rector of this church, with the assent of Sir Jn. de Munpinzun, patron, and confirmed by the Bishop of Norwich, about the tithes of the demeans of the said Sir John, and of lands formerly Sir John de Breton's, that the rector should have the said tithe to him and his successours, paying 4 marks per ann. for the same to the prior and convent, under the penalty of 40s. Before this, there was an agreement in the time of Bishop Raleigh, between the then prior, and Hugh de Ardern, rector, that the tithes aforesaid should belong to the prior." If this "Hugh of Ardern" was rector of the church at Ingoldisthorpe and had dealings with Raleigh [aka Raley, Ralegh, who became bishop of Norwich in 1239 and died in 1250], it means there was a church here at the time, and probably earlier, which would account for the late-Norman font here. The present font is described and illustrated in Bond (1908): originally a Norman square bowl, its four sides were covered with different motifs; at some later date it was truncated into an octagon, slicing right through the interlacing, as it is known to have happened at Chelvy, Somerset, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, and Warnham All Saints, Norfolk. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "the font is a curiosity - it was once a square Norman font, but somebody, probably in the 13th century, thought that it would look better octagonal. It doesn't, I think, but that is what we are left with." On-site notes: the original square basin was recut into an octagon and is now mounted on an octagonal pedestal and raised on a wide octagonal plinth, probably in imitation of the common style of font design that became popular in England in later centuries. The sides of the basin show: 1) East: interlace of linked circles; 2) North: large vegetal motif; 3) West: blind arcade of round arches on columns with capitals and bases; 4) South: reticular pattern. Braided pattern appears above and below the central motifs. The west side of the basin has a large repair insert at the upper end. The basin well is lead lined and has a central drain hole. Only the basin is original, though re-cut; the base and plinth are of a later date. The flat octagonal cover is modern

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.865567, 0.510931

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 51′ 56.04″ N, 0° 30′ 39.35″ E

UTM: 31U 332454 5860218

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: square (mounted) [now octagonal]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square [now octagonal]

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 8 - 11 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 75-80 cm

Basin Depth: 25 cm

Basin Total Height: 35 cm

Height of Base: 60 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 110 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 75 x 75 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Notes: flat octagonal wooden lid with metal reinforcements

REFERENCES

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

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2014-04-07 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.