Hevingham / Evincham / Hevincham
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1545572] [accessed 29 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W pghotograph taken 21 June 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hevingham St Botolph's church from SW [6855] 1992-06-21.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1545549] [accessed 29 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font visible at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/317214] [accessed 29 May 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/317212] [accessed 29 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
Apostle or saint? - unidentified
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1545572] [accessed 29 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arches - columns with capitals
Scene Description: housing the standing figures and the Crucifixion scene
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1545572] [accessed 29 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01700HEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Botolph
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Botolph
Church Address: Cromer Road, Hevingham, Norfolk NR10 5QU
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A140, 5 km S of Aylsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham
Additional Comments: composite font: base is 14thC, basin is 19thC -- restored font: in 1881 -- disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Conquest church here) -- not yet done in SimonK
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "the capital manor and advowson belonged to Leustan, the ancestor of Teheli, in the Confessor's time, and after Teheli it came to Earl Ralf, who forfeited it to the Conqueror, whose manor it was, and Godric the sewer took care of it for that prince; who soon after granted it to a freeman, a priest, who held it at the survey, by the tenure of singing three masses every week, for the soul of the Conqueror and his relations; [...] and this priest left it to the Bishop of Norwich and his successours, who were lords and patrons. [...] The Church is dedicated to St. Botolph, and the chancel to St. Mary [...] These two transept chapels, made the church in form of a cross; the tower is square, in which there are five bells; the chancel, nave, and south porch are leaded. [...] There are many stones here, but the brasses are reaved; there remains one plate by the font, which shows, that Richard Rayner died 27 August, 1593." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Richard de Sutton" as first recorded rector here, in 1307. Thomas (1846) reports: "Font. Hexagonal, bowl and stem continuous, mutilated fig[ure]s under drop arches with Dec[orated] tracery; basin in cavity." The font is noted in Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of 1870-1872: "The church [...] contains an ancient font". Rye's Index of 1881 refers to "Archa. xvi, p. 335" [to be checked]. White's gazetteer of 1883 reports: "The church possesses a curious hexagonal font, with mutilated figures under florid Gothic arches, which was completely restored in 1881." The present font here is listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a stone baptismal font of the Decorated period. Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note: "Only the stem is original C14 work. Hexagonal with statuettes in niches and a Crucifixion." [NB: we have no information on the font from the pre-Conquest church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1992
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 382613 5846272
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.753532, 1.260658
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 45′ 12.71″ N, 1° 15′ 38.37″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 374-381 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78269] [accessed 29 May 2013]
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 210
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 547
- Rye, Walter, An index to Norfolk topography, London: Published for the Index Society by Longmans, Green & Co., 1881, p. 147
- Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846, p. 205
- White, William, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, [s.l.]: [printed for the author], 1883, [transcribed by Pat Newby in www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/h/hevingham/white1883.shtml [accessed 29 May 2013]]
- Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, [transcribed in www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3963] [accessed 29 May 2013]