Hickling nr. Norwich / Hikelinga
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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Results: 11 records
view of font and cover - northwest view
Scene Description: the south doorway at the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hickling/hickling.htm] [accessed 16 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover - west side
Scene Description: note the damage to the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmouse.co.uk]
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: large square flowers on four alternate sides of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hickling/hickling.htm] [accessed 16 December 2013]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: a pair on each of four alternate sides of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hickling/hickling.htm] [accessed 16 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hickling/hickling.htm] [accessed 16 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - west façade - detail
Scene Description: Photo caption: "16c. 'Splendidly grouped door, window, niche and sound-hole'"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 November 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hickling St Mary's church west door [6952] 1992-11-28.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The aisle windows all Decorated but all renewed"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 November 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hickling St Mary's church from SE [6951] 1992-11-28.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hickling/hickling.htm] [accessed 16 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hickling/hickling.htm] [accessed 16 December 2013]
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: on four alternate sides of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hickling/hickling.htm] [accessed 16 December 2013]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Scene Description: on four alternate sides of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hickling/hickling.htm] [accessed 16 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10283HIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
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: The Walk, Hickling, Norfolk NR12 0BQ
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Loacted off (E) the A149, about 30 km NE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Happing
Additional Comments: damaged font: upper basin side: probably from the removal of metal staples of the old cover -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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The entry for "Hikelinga" in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4124/hickling/] [accessed 16 December 2013] reports a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes tha the church here was one of several endowed to Hickling Priory when it was founded by Theobald de Valoins in 1185: "The Church is dedicated to St. Mary, and was a rectory, valued at 30 marks, and appropriated to the priory, and a vicarage was founded, in the reign of Edward I [i.e., 1272-1307] the vicar is said to have convenient edifices". The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) with date in the 14th century. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, raised on a pedestal base and plinth, both also octagonal; the side panels of basin and base are decorated with alternating assorted tracery motifs of square rosettes and trefoil arches; ohe of the sides of the basin shows considerable damage, now repaired, consistent with the forceful removal of the old cover staples. Wooden font cover, octagonal and flat; appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of www.churchmouse.co.uk, and to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for their photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in November 1992
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 404006 5846747
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.762022, 1.577385
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 45′ 43.28″ N, 1° 34′ 38.59″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes for details]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 301-308 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78549] [accessed 16 December 2013]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 551