Limpenhoe / Limpeho / Limpehou
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the restored and re-tooled font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2009
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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design element - architectural - arch or window - pointed - 16
Scene Description: re-tooled [cf. FontNotes]
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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
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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
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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 - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
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
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
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 - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
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 west
Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the back, left (south) side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1520267] [accessed 8 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2009
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05943LIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: Sutton, Beccles, Denham and many others all over England
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side, by the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Address: Church Road, Limpenhoe, Norfolk, NR13 3HY, UK
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font? (restored) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original -ca. 1108- church here)
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1940 and 2003
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 400683 5826611
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.580465, 1.534221
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 34′ 49.67″ N, 1° 32′ 3.2″ E
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, vol. 7: 235-236 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78343] [accessed 8 August 2013]
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 7: 253-254 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78349] [accessed 12 August 2013]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 77
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 587
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 29, 88