Langham nr. Fakenham / Great Langham / Bishop's Langham / Lagaam / Langaham / Langham Bishop / Langham Episcopi

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 12

Scene Description: notice the replacement capitals and bases [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langham/images/] [accessed 1 June 2009]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph Novembre 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langham/] [accessed 24 January 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The 15c tower has turret stairs carried up above the parapet"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Langham Ss Andrew and Mary church from SE [7203] 1995-06-18.jpg] [accessed 24 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Photo caption: "15c arcade with modern roof and benches"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Langham Ss Andrew and Mary church int east [7204] 1995-06-18.jpg] [accessed 24 January 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph Novembre 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langham/] [accessed 24 January 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph Novembre 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langham/images/] [accessed 1 June 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph Novembre 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langham/] [accessed 24 January 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph November 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langham/images/] [accessed 1 June 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01677LAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew and St. Mary [formerly Parish Church of St. Andrew]

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew & St. Mary [formerly dedicated to St. Andrew]

Church Location: Holt Road, Langham, Norfolk NR25 7BX

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1388, 4 km NE of Blakeney, about 15 km NNE of Fakenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Holt

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

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Transitional / Early English [altered]

Cognate Fonts: Other such fonts at Hemingford Abbots and St. Ives (Cambs.) and Bosham (W. Sussex)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Langham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0041/langham/] [accessed 24 January 2014], one of which includes two churches. The general entry for Langham in Blomefield (1805-1810) notes: "here were two churches, with 16 acres", and his entry for Langham Magna (ibid.) reports: "Pope Alexander the Third, in 1176, confirmed to John Bishop of Norwich the rectory of this church. Herbert the Bishop of Norwich had before this granted a portion of tithe out of it to the prior of Norwich", grant which would account for his later statement: "The Church is a vicarage dedicated to St. Andrew, [...] being anciently a rectory [...] the Bishop of Norwich has the impropriated rectory, and the advowson of the vicarage". Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports a Norman font in this church. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font of the Norman period consisting of an octagonal basin mounted on a five-pillar support base; the basin sides are ornamented with a blind arcade. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "bowl with round headed panels on faces; four subsidiary shafts". Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "C13, of Purbeck marble. Octagonal, with two shallow blank pointed arches on each side" [NB: the arches are rounded [cf. ImagesArea] Described and illustrated in Knott (2008): "graffito on the font: 'Alice Nettleton baptised the 14th day of April 1692'. The font comes from the lost church of St Mary, Langham Parva" [NB: Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note that the church at Langhan Parva "has disappeared completely. It was already decayed by 1602"]. The original basin appears hexagonal [not octagonal as described in T-G et al., above] and is raised now on a base that appears to have been made up using the original central shaft and four outer colonnettes, but re-set in modern moulded capitals and bases. The wooden cover is flat and round; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.931278, 0.985733

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55′ 52.6″ N, 0° 59′ 8.64″ E

UTM: 31U 364615 5866525

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-01 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928