Themelthorpe / Themilthorpe / Thymelthorp

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Probably an early church as at the south-west corner of the nave there are no dressed stone quoins"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 June 1986 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Themelthorpe St Andrew's church south side [6397] 1986-06-25.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/themelthorpe/themelthorpe.htm] [accessed 31 October 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/themelthorpe/themelthorpe.htm] [accessed 31 October 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font visible at the far (west) end

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/themelthorpe/themelthorpe.htm] [accessed 31 October 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/895578] [accessed 31 October 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06024THE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Themelthorpe, Norfolk, NR20 5PS

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Reepham, 15 km ENE of East Dereham (access from the A1067, through Foxley)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford

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

Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1986

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Themelthorpe has no individual entry in the Domesday survey, where it is accounted for under Folsham and Kerdeston. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes; "John de Marshal, as lord, gave in the reign of Henry III.[i.e., 1216-1272] to the priory of Walsingham, the advowson of the church of Themilthorpe [...] In the 3d of Henry III. [i.e., 1219] Vincent de Bee occurs rector [...] The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St Andrew [...] It is a single pile with a chancel thatched, and a square tower with three bells." The present 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. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Wilson (1997). The baptismal font consists of a plain octagonal basin with underbowl chamfer, raised on a plain octagonal stem and lower base; on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain; painted deep blue to match the curtains on the tower entranceway. This may be the font of the original 13th-century noted in Blomefield [cf. supra].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.775083, 1.049022

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 46′ 30.3″ N, 1° 2′ 56.48″ E

UTM: 31U 368397 5849035

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928