Lyng nr. East Dereham No. 1 / Ling
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view of font and cover
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
Scene Description: of the four shafts seen in this image only the one on the left is original [cf. FontNotes] -- notice also the repaired damage on the sides
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph (edited for distorsion) taken 13 October 2007 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/2316700970/] [accessed 9 October 2013]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Tower 13c, nave Perpendicular, chancel rebuilt 1912"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 June 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Lyng St Margaret's church south side [6842] 1992-06-15.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the west end of the centre aisle
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2007 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/2315890753/] [accessed 9 October 2013]
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view of font cover
Scene Description: the modern cover
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05945LYN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English
Cognate Fonts: Sutton, Beccles, Denham and many others all over England
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret [formerly St. Michael's; St. Clement's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina] [formerly St. Michael; St. Clement]
Church Address: 10 Soanes Court, Lyng, Norfolk NR9 5AN
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A47, 8 km SW of Reepham, 10 km ENE of East Dereham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford
Additional Comments: altered font? / restored font? (several -six?- of the supporting shafts are modern replacements)
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Ling" records neither church nor cleric in it". Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church consists of 2 isles covered with thatch, a chancel, and has 6 bells. It is a rectory dedicated to St. Clement [...] Reginald occurs rector, ao. 9 Henry III" [i.e., 1225], which date would be consistent with the one attributed to the font. The entry for Lyng St. Clement's in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "The church is chiefly in the later English style, with a square embattled tower; the font is of Norman character". 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". This font is one of them. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, C13, of Purbeck marble, with the familiar two shallow poited arches on each side. Eight shafts and a central column, restored or renewed." Illustrated in Knott (2006). The interior of the basin is lead-lined; raised on an octagonal lower base and an octagonal plinth, both probably modern. The wooden cover is octagonal and tall, of very airy open-work; modern as well. The Family Source web site [http://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Lyng,_Norfolk] [accessed 9 October 2013} notes: "Lyng St Margaret is an Ancient Parish in the Sparham deanery of the Diocese of Norwich. It includes Easthaugh and Ling Easthaugh. The patron saint has changed three times in the last 400 years - originally St. Michael’s, it changed to St. Margaret’s in 1652, then became St.Clements during the 19th Century, reverting back to St. Margaret’s by 1906. Records reflect different dedicatory names for the parish accordingly." [NB: we have not been able to find a single source for this information, but it appears to be correct with regards the changes in dedication of Lyng's present church] [cf. Index entry for Lyng No. 2 for the ruined church of Lyng St. Edmund's].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1992
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 369111 5842743
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.71872, 1.06212
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 43′ 7.39″ N, 1° 3′ 43.63″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 248-252 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78459] [accessed 9 October 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
- 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51126] [accessed 16 February 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 532
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 29