Dersingham

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design element - architectural - niche or window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: two on each side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 November 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1701389] [accessed 12 November 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The chancel, arcades and north doorway are Decorated, the rest Perpendicular" EXT SE digital photograph taken 2 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1945788] [accessed 12 November 2013] INT ROOD digital photograph taken 2 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1945821] [accessed 12 November 2013] INT SCREEN DADO digital photograph taken 2 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1945800] [accessed 12 November 2013] FONT digital photograph taken 2 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1945804] [accessed 12 November 2013] FONT&COVER digital photograph taken 14 November 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1701389] [accessed 12 November 2013] INT E digital photograph taken 14 November 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1701385] [accessed 12 November 2013] INT ROOF digital photograph taken 14 November 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1701421] [accessed 12 November 2013]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 16 June 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/D/Dersingham St Nicholas' church from SE [7336] 1996-06-16.jpg] [accessed 12 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1945788] [accessed 12 November 2013]

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view of church interior - Holy Rood

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1945821] [accessed 12 November 2013]

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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - detail

Scene Description: the dado of the screen

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1945800] [accessed 12 November 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - ceiling

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 November 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1701421] [accessed 12 November 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 November 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1701385] [accessed 12 November 2013]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1945804] [accessed 12 November 2013]

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view of font and cover

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

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 November 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1701389] [accessed 12 November 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05228DER

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Church Lane, Dersingham, Norfolk PE31 6YW

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located about 15 km N of King's Lynn, just N of Sandringham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred and half of Freebridge

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

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograh of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, 16 June 1996

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Domesday survey entries for the different parts of "Dersingham" mention neither church nor cleric in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) describes the church here without giving a founding date: "The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and is a very large pile of flint, boulder, &c. as most of the churches in Norfolk are, with a large chancel; the nave and two isles covered with lead, and the chancel with tile. At the west end of the nave is a strong four square tower with 5 bells, on that a lantern, with a bell, and a little shaft covered with lead." Blomefeld (ibid.) names "Richard de Eggefeld" as first-recorded vicar "presented to the vicarage, by the prior, &c. of Bynham", in 1306, and mentions a series of transactions related to the rights on Dersingham church that take place in the reigns of Henry II (1154-1189) and John (1199-1216), which would suggest a date for the original church here ca. 1200. The present font is described and illustrated in Bond (1908). In Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. C14. Octagonal, with two blank arched panels on each side. Font cover. Turned balusters support a C15 section with crocketed pinnacles. It was over-restored in 1914 when the C17 balusters were renewed in replica." Octagonal mounted font; the vertical sides of the basin have two trefoil arches each; the stem of the base and the splayed lower base, also octagonal, are plain. It is raised on an octagonal plinth. Bond (ibid.) did not appear very impressed with the style when he wrote "the ogee niche may assume a homely form" referring to the ornamentation on the basin. The font cover [cf. supra] is octagonal and about 3-4 ft. tall; it has a low crown around the lower part and the rest of the body, much narrower, is ornamented with trefoil windows and cusped pinnacles. The cover is raised via a counterweight system.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.844405, 0.512383

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 50′ 39.86″ N, 0° 30′ 44.58″ E

UTM: 31U 332470 5857861

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: part 15th-century, part 17th-century; restored in 1914

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: counterweight

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

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

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