Limpenhoe / Limpeho / Limpehou

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design element - architectural - arch or window - pointed - 16

Scene Description: re-tooled [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1520270] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - north porch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1520172] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1520145] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 4 May 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Limpenhoe St Botolph's church Norman S door [3392] 1940-05-04] [accessed 8 August 2013

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 24 February 2003 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Limpenhoe St Botolph's church Norman S door [7917] 2003-02-24.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2013

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 4 May 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Limpenhoe St Botolph's church from SE [3393] 1940-05-04.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2013

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1520246] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the back, left (south) side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1520267] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the restored and re-tooled font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1520270] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05943LIM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph

Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]

Church Location: Church Road, Limpenhoe, Norfolk, NR13 3HY, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1151, NE of the A149, 25 km ENE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Blofield

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side, by the entrance

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Cognate Fonts: Sutton, Beccles, Denham and many others all over England

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1940 and 2003

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Domesday entries for "Limpeho" and Limpehou" mention neither church nor cleric in this place, but a church existed here by 1108 [cf. infra], at which time it was a rectory. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Botolph. In the 8th of Richard I. [i.e., 1108] William de Redham granted his right in this church to Robert FitzRoger, being then a rectory, and John Fitz-Robert gave it, by fine, to Hugh abbot of Langley, in exchange for the church of Eure in Buckinghamshire; the rectory, with the vicarage, that was settled, valued at 12 marks: Peter-pence 13d. carvage 2d. ob. the present valor 4l. and discharged. Vicars. In 1311, Henry de Bynham was instituted vicar, presented by the Abbot, &c. of Langley." Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes: "The octagonal form persisted in fonts of the same class in the thirteenth century, with the change that in the Early English style pointed arches take the place of rounded ones in the shallow incised arcading", and lists this as one of the latter. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) much along the same lines, noting the base "with a column and eight satellite shafts", and the material: Purbeck marble. Illustrated in Knott (2007), who wonders if this font might have come originally from the ruined church at nearby Southwood. The font appears to have been restored, the lower base and the plinth are modern, and perhaps some of the columns of the base as well. The wooden cover is octagonal and box-like, with decorated edges; modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original -ca. 1108- church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.580465, 1.534221

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ 49.67″ N, 1° 32′ 3.2″ E

UTM: 31U 400683 5826611

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern

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: 2009-06-25 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

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