Hemblington / Hemelingetun / Hemelintuna / Hemlington

Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

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B01: God - Trinity (seated God the Father; Christ on the Cross; Holy Dove)

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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B02: Apostle or saint - St. Barbara?

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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B03: Apostle or saint - St. Edward the Confessor

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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B04: Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: to the right of St. Edward the Confessor

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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B05: Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: on the opposite side of the Trinity

B06: Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: to the left of St. Agatha

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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B07: Apostle or saint - St. Agatha

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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B08: Apostle or saint - St. Augustine?

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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LB01: Apostle or saint - St. Leonard - holding manacles

Scene Description: under the Trinity

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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LB02: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with wheel and sword

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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LB03: Apostle or saint - St. Stephen?

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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LB04: Apostle or saint - unidentified

LB05: Apostle or saint - St. Mary Magdalene

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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LB06: Apostle or saint - St. Lawrence - with grill

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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LB07: Apostle or saint - St. Margaret of Antioch - with dragon - with cross, staff or spear

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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LB08: Apostle or saint - unidentified

design element - architectural - arcade - 8 arches

Scene Description: each with a figure in it

design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: as part of the tracery

design element - patterns - tracery

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital image of a 2014 drawing by Robert Wilkes

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Norman round tower"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 April 1969 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hemblington All Saints church from SW [5242] 1969-04-06.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the upper basin of the font in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font visible at the west end of the aisle -

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott in Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hemblington/hemblington.htm] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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view of church interior - north aisle - painting - detail

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Painting on north wall of nave of St Christopher, martyrdom of St Edmund etc."

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 April 1969 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hemblington All Saints church wall painting [5243] 1969-04-06.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2014]

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view of church interior - north aisle - painting - detail

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Painting on north wall of nave of St Christopher, martyrdom of St Edmund etc."

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 April 1969 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hemblington All Saints church wall painting [5245] 1969-04-06.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: photograph taken 1980 by C. Page [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/298725] [acceassed 26 December 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced here under the Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/] [accessed 26 December 2008]

view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Font with carved figures. Modern colouring"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 April 1969 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hemblington All Saints church wall painting [5245] 1969-04-06.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09479HEM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Lane, Hemblington, Norfolk NR13 4EF

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1140, N of Brundall, 13 km ENE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Walsham

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: "this one does bear a strong resemblance to that nearby at Buckenham" [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his information on, and photographs of this church and font; grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font taken by his father, George Plunkett, in April 1969. We are also grateful to Robert Wilkes for the image of his 2014 drawing of this church

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Hemblington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3511/hemblington/] [accessed 7 May 2014], but they mention neither church nor cleric in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church was a rectory dedicated to All-Saints, and formerly in the patronage of the Bishops of Norwich, but was appropriated to the prior and convent of Norwich, for the prior's table, by Walter Suffield Bishop in 1248 [...] The principal manor belonged to the see of Norwich; at the survey William Beaufoe Bishop of Thetford held it in his own right [...] Bishop Beaufoe gave this to his see at his death, and Bishop Herbert settled it on the priory, with the advowson of the church." [NB: William de Beaufeu [aka Beaufoe] was diocesan bishop of Thetford between 1085 and 1091; Bishop Herbert [Herbert of Losinga], held the Norwich see 1094-1119]. The above dates suggest that the church of Hemblington existed by ca. 1100, and, if the Domesday book is correct and there was no church in Hemblington in 1086, it would have been founded soon after the survey; the round tower is probably Norman. Pevsner & Wilson (1997) identify "the Trinity and seated figures against the bowl" and date this font 15th-century. Described in Friar (2003) as a baptismal font decorated with sculpture [probably 15th century, like the font at Stalham]. Described and illustrated in Knott (2007): "The first is one of a number of very interesting, even idiosyncratic, fonts in this part of Norfolk. These do not appear to be part of a series, although this one does bear a strong resemblance to that nearby at Buckenham. They do suggest, however, that there was an abundance of stonecarvers working in this area in the 15th century, and that parishes were able to express their independence and individuality in their choice of subject. The Reformation would put a stop to that. The Hemblington font was recoloured lightly in the 1930s under the eye of Professor Tristram. It is a great celebration of Saints; there are seven seated on the panels of the bowl, and eight more standing around the shaft. The eighth panel subject is a beautiful Holy Trinity, with God the Father seated holding his crucified Son between his knees, while the dove of the Spirit descends. It is a charming image; there is another on the font at Acle a few miles off. Among the Saints on the panel are St Augustine, St Edward the Confessor, St Barbara, and a striking St Agatha - she sits with her breasts bared, a sword descending. Among those around the shaft are St Lawrence with a finely carved grid iron, St Leonard with his manacles, St Margaret dispatching a dragon with her cross, St Catherine with her wheel and sword, St Stephen and St Mary Magdalene." The panels of the octagonal basin are deeply carved and house the saintly figures; the curved underbowl chamfer is decorated with reticular tracery; each panel of the octagonal stem has niche inhabited by a saintly figure raised on a tall stool; the figures are painted in vivid colours, as are some of the panels themselves. [NB: the church is said to go back to Anglo-Saxon times cf. supra], but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.650515, 1.477021

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 1.85″ N, 1° 28′ 37.28″ E

UTM: 31U 396972 5834483

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: two metal staples from the old font fastening system still left at the upper rim

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2008-12-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997