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Source caption: "The ruined church of St Margaret - information board"
Scene Description: Source caption: "The ruined church of St Margaret - information board"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1717785] [accessed 7 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

symbol - shield - Trinity

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

symbol - shield - the instruments of the Passion

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior

Source caption: "The preserved ruin of St Margaret's church, consisting of chancel and north chapel, nave and north aisle, dates from the first half of the 14th century. The building caught fire in 1865. [...] A new church was built at a different site in 1866."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The preserved ruin of St Margaret's church, consisting of chancel and north chapel, nave and north aisle, dates from the first half of the 14th century. The building caught fire in 1865. [...] A new church was built at a different site in 1866."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1717781] [accessed 7 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 11712HOP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Lowestoft Road, Hopton on Sea, Norfolk NR31 9BB
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A12, half way between Lowestoft to the S, and Gt. Yarmouth to the N [NB: not to be mistaken with the other Hopton, between Barningham and Garboldisham]
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackburn [in Domesday] -- formerly Suffolk?
Font Location in Church: Inside the church ca. 1850
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Hopton, in the Hundred of Blackburn, in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TG5200/hopton/] [accessed 7 September 2015], that matches the location of Hopton on Sea, just east of the A12, and the Lowestoft Road; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The present font here is noted in Suckling (1846-1848): "The font is octangular, of a very usual pattern. On shields in some of its panels are the emblems of the Passion, and of the Trinity." Parker (1855) notes a Perpendicular font in this church. [NB: the National Gazetter of 1868 puts this Hopton in Suffolk -- the re-drawing of the borders in 1974 put this Hopton in Norfolk]. The present whereabouts of this font are unknown. The entry for the parish church at Hopton-on-Sea in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TG5241500040] (1954) has: "Hexagonal lobed font with central drum and orbiting marble shafts." [NB: this is a modern font introduced in Teulon's 1866-1867 new church, buil;t in a different location from the ruins of Old St Margaret's].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.538134, 1.729368
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 17.28″ N, 1° 43′ 45.73″ E
UTM: 31U 413822 5821652

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855
Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848