Crimplesham / Creplesham
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1913384] [accessed 14 August 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Scene Description: at top and bottom
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1913384] [accessed 14 August 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1913384] [accessed 14 August 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1913369] [accessed 14 August 2013]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: the fine Norman portal has survived; not so the tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Crimplesham St Mary's church Norman S door [5471] 1975-09-11.jpg] [accessed 14 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 October 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Crimplesham St Mary's church from SW [7100] 1993-10-31.jpg] [accessed 14 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 21 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Crimplesham St Mary's church from SE [5654] 1976-08-21.jpg] [accessed 14 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is visible at the back (west), by the tower arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1913383] [accessed 14 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1913374] [accessed 14 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06004CRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century / 17th century, Decorated? / Restoration?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: St. Mary Lane / Church Rd., Crimplesham, Norfolk, PE33 9EB
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A1122, 5 km E of Downham Market
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Clackclose
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is no mention of church or cleric in the Domesday entry for "Creplesham", but Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was a rectory, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Clare and Brion in Normandy, gave in the reign of William II.[i.e., 1087-1100] the lordship and the church of St. John of Clare in Suffolk, to the abbey of Bec in Normandy; [...] and this church was confirmed to them by Pope Alexander III. and was appropriated, the spiritualities being taxed at 20 marks, (a vicarage was settled, valued at 40s.) and there belonged to it a manor with 50 acres of land. [...] It is a single pile, with a chancel covered with reed, and built of coarse stone, found in the neighbourhood; has a square tower, embattled, &c. with 5 large bells". The font here is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as a font of the 17th century. Illustrated in context in Knott (2009). The sides of the basin are actually decorated at top and bottom with flat mouldings, and at the bottom of the underbowl chamfer there is a moulding all around. The date asasigned in Pevsner & Wilson appears appropriate. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 11th-century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1975, 1976 and 1993
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 326840 5831549
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.606319, 0.442751
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 36′ 22.75″ N, 0° 26′ 33.91″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 7: 310-314 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78358] [accessed 14 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.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 274
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 31