Kenninghall / Cheninchala / Keninchala / Keninghala

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Results: 6 records

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400249] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400262] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400297] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 January 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kenninghall/kenninghall.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400309] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by George Plunkett 20 August 1965 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Kenninghall St Mary's church font and cover [4962] 1965-08-20.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11675KEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Street, Kenninghall, Norfolk NR16 2EP

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located about 28 km S of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Guiltcross

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of ww.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font. We are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in August 1965

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Kenninghall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM0485/kenninghall/] [accessed 7 September 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A notable font cover is reported in James (1930), without mention of the font itself. Pevsner & Wilson (1999), too, mention the cover only: "Tall Perp[endicular] canopy, i.e. late C14: central drum with eight radiating buttresses above. The very top is a restoration." Both font and cover are illustrated in Knott (2006). The font is octagonal and almost totally plain, just a moulded underbowl decorates it; it is also whitewashed, which does not help with the dating; the font is believed to be 14th-century, like the cover

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.434095, 1.002166

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 2.74″ N, 1° 0′ 7.8″ E

UTM: 31U 364185 5811198

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 14th-century? [restored]

Material: wood, oak?

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-06 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999