Lessingham / Lesingham

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005-July 2006 taken by Simon Knott in Norkolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lessingham/lessingham.htm]

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design element - architectural - column - 8

Scene Description: eight slender colonnettes, detached, around a central shaft

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005-July 2006 taken by Simon Knott in Norkolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lessingham/lessingham.htm]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the colonnettes of the base

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005-July 2006 taken by Simon Knott in Norkolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lessingham/lessingham.htm]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Recently ruinated chancel" [NB: ironically, the chancel was the one part of the old curch that had survived earlier]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Lessingham All Saints church from SE [5616] 1976-08-17.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005-July 2006 taken by Simon Knott in Norkolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lessingham/lessingham.htm] [accessed 15 January 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the west end of the nave, the font and cover and the tower arch

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005-July 2006 taken by Simon Knott in Norkolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lessingham/lessingham.htm] [accessed 15 January 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005-July 2006 taken by Simon Knott in Norkolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lessingham/lessingham.htm]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005-July 2006 taken by Simon Knott in Norkolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lessingham/lessingham.htm]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11098LES

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1157, 3 km NE of Stalham, 25 km SE of Cromer, 30 km NE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwicg

Historical Region: Hundred of Happing

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

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the information on and 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 August 1976

Church Notes: for the wonderful late-medieval screen from this church, moved to storage in Norwich castle see Simon Knott's page [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lessingham/lessingham.htm] [accessed 15 January 2014]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a single entry for this place in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3928/lessingham/] [accessed 15 January 2014], but it mentions neither church nor priest in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory dedicated to All-Saints, and was in the patronage of the priory of Okeburn, as a cell to the abbey of Bec [...] abbey of Benedictin monks, at Bec in Normandy, which abbey subjected to their cell at Okeborne, in Wiltshire, as appears from a charter of King Henry II [1154-1189]: in the reign of Edward I [i.e., 1272-1307] the rector had a manse with 15 acres". The church here must therefore have been founded between 1086 and 1189. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports that this church "contains a Norman font", but the present font [cf. infra] cannot be dated to the Norman period. The Historic Churches Preservation Trust notes a baptismal font in this church [source: the 'Recent grants' report of the Grants Committee meetings of 9 March 2004 and 22 June 2004 of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, www.historicchurches.org.uk]. Noted and illustrated in Simon Knott's Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lessingham/lessingham.htm]. The font consists of an octagonal basin with slightly tapering sides decorated with an arcade of trefoil arches or niches in very shallow carving; it is raised on a central shaft and eight detached slender colonnettes, all of them with moulded bases, and a plain octagonal lower base; octagonal plinth with 'priest's stone' extension; flat wooden cover with metal decorations and ring handle; the base, plinth and cover of the font are all modern, probably 19th-century.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 401770 5850906

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

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: 2005-10-10 00:00:00. 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