Kelling / Challinga / Kellinga

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B01: symbol - shield - emblem - Trinity

Scene Description: on the northest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kelling/kelling.htm] [accessed 14 February 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kelling/kelling.htm] [accessed 14 February 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin

Scene Description: the side with the Trinity emblem [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kelling/kelling.htm] [accessed 14 February 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kelling/kelling.htm] [accessed 14 February 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kelling/kelling.htm] [accessed 24 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: ""To the south, the ruins of a transept or transeptual chapel." (Pevsner)"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Kelling St Mary's church from SE [7202] 1995-06-18.jpg] [accessed 24 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kelling/kelling.htm] [accessed 24 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kelling/kelling.htm] [accessed 24 January 2014]

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kelling/kelling.htm] [accessed 14 February 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07395KEL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1500?

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

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: Kelling, Norfolk NR25 7EW

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the A149, 3 km NE of Holt, 5-6 km W of Sheringham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Holt

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-13thC (?) church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There are three entries for Kelling [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0841/kelling/] [accessed 24 January 2014], but there is no mention of church or cleric in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Mary [...] Rectors. In 1266, Sir Robert de Kelling compounded with the Bishop of Norwich, for the first-fruits of his two sons, presented to this church, and that of Salt-house." This seems to be the earliest reference in Blomefield (ibid.) to anything or anyone related to the church here, even if it does not give an accurate time for the foundation of this church. The present font is noted in Paley (1844) as a baptismal font bearing an inscription. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 comments simply that "the font is handsome". Farrer (1887 [1885?]) describes the heraldic emblems: "II. The Emblem of the Trinity. -- Ill The Agnus Dei. -- IV. Two keys in saltire, St. Peter. -- V. Two swords in saltire, St. Paul. -- VI. Three mitres, that in base enfiled with a crosier in pale, See of Norwich. See p. 376. -- VII. Plain. This was possibly left for the coat of the then bishop of the diocese, and never carved. -- VIII. Quarterly : — 1 and 4, France (modem) ; 2 and 3, England. The shield has a label of three. " John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.'* -- IX. Quarterly : — 1 and 4, France (modern) ; 2 and 3, England." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font with "remains of inscription for souls of ... 'de Kelling and Beatrice his wife'". Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) and dated to ca. 1500, a gift of William and Beatrice Kelling, and identify an emblem of the Trinity, the Instruments of the Passion, coats of arms, crossed swords and crossed keys on the basin sides. Described and illustrated in Knott (2006), who reports of his January 2006 visit to this church: "The 15th century font not only has a shield with an undamaged symbol of the Holy Trinity, but a dedicatory inscription to the de Kelling family in a very unusual place, around the rim of the bowl." Each shield is charged with an emblem or coat of arms (two daggers crossed, two keys crossed, etc.)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photograph of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in August 1995

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 372746 5866439

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.932492, 1.106666

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 55′ 56.97″ N, 1° 6′ 24″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English

Inscription Text: ["remains of inscription for souls of ... 'de Kelling and Beatrice his wife'".]

Inscription Notes: full text not available; mentions the donors, William and Beatrice Kelling

Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 182)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1902

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal platform with eights ribs on it; modern

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 403-407 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78578] [accessed 24 January 2014]
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 182
Farrer, Edmund, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, a description of all coats of arms […] now to be found in the county […], Norwich: A.H. Goose and Co., 1885-1893, vol. 2: 389
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
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=51069] [accessed 14 February 2007]
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 27
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 580