Hargham / Harpham Herkeham
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1853463] [accessed 29 March 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1853463] [accessed 29 March 2013]
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view of church exterior - west tower - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1398960] [accessed 29 March 2013]
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view of church exterior - west tower - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2006 by Simon Knott [wdigital photograph taken October 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hargham/hargham.htm] [accessed 26 February 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: notice the detached ruined tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2006 by Simon Knott [wdigital photograph taken October 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hargham/hargham.htm] [accessed 26 February 2013]
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view of church interior - west end
Scene Description: the top of the font is visible to the left (south) of the doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1853460] [accessed 29 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1853458] [accessed 29 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1853463] [accessed 29 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06130HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [old tower in ruins]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Hargham Road, Quidenham, Norfolk NR16 2JW
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A11, 5 km SSW of Attleborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Shropham
Additional Comments: HARGHAM is pronounced 'harf'm'
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) quotes the Domesday entry for 'Herkeham' (fol. 211) in the Hundred of Shropham, and notes: "The Church is dedicated to all the Saints, and it hath a nave, chancel, and south porch tiled, a square tower, and three bells", and gives "Sir Walter" as the first recorded rector in 1281. The Domesday entry for this place mentions neither church nor priest in it. Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "the church restored in 1874 [...] the old tower remains a ruin standing apart from the church." A font here is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a decagonal mounted baptismal font. The font is described in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TM0199291350 -- 16.7.58 II*]: "Decagonal plain font
on circular stem and decagonal moulded astragals and base."
on circular stem and decagonal moulded astragals and base."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 362359 5816656
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.482675, 0.973069
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 28′ 57.63″ N, 0° 58′ 23.05″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: decagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: decagonal
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 1: 412-419 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=77127] [accessed 26 February 2013]
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory for Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1883, p. 332-333
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 34