Hockering / Hokelinka / Hokering / Hokryng

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UB01: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 8

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

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UB02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross

Scene Description: on the right side is St. Catherine (?)

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

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UB03: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria?

Scene Description: on the right is St. Margaret

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

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UB04: Apostle or saint - St. Margaret of Antioch - with dragon

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

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UB05: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

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

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UB06: Apostle or saint - St. Christopher and Christ-child

Scene Description: on the right is St. Michael

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

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UB07: Apostle or saint - St. Michael - slaying the dragon

Scene Description: on the left is St. Christopher; on the right is an unidentified saint (?)

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

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UB08: Apostle or saint - male - unidentified

Scene Description: on the left is St. Michael

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

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angel - hands together in prayer

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

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angel - holding object - 7

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 26 March 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The church is badly over-restored. The windows are lancets or have Y- or intersected tracery"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 8 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hockering St Michael's church from SE [7216] 1995-07-08.jpg] [accessed 26 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "15c tower"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 21 May 1939 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hockering St Michael's church from west [2997] 1939-05-21.jpg] [accessed 26 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 26 March 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 26 March 2014]

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view of font

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12653HOC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: The Street, Hockering, Norfolk, NR20 3HL

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A47, 8 km E of East Dereham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred and half of Mitford

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

Century and Period: 15th century [stem only] -- 19th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1939 and 1995

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Hockering the the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0713/hockering/] [accessed 26 March 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: " The Church is dedicated to St. Michael, and is a rectory [...] It is a single pile, with a chancel, and a round tower with one bell. [...] About 1232, Reginald occurs rector". The church, however, must have existed earlier since Blomefield (ibid.) refers to a fine levied in relation to the advowson of this church "In the 6th of King John" [1205]. The present font here is reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "the font [...] is exceedingly handsome, and highly sculptured." Pevsner & Wilson (1999) note: "C15 stem with carved figures, but a C19 bowl." Described and fully illustrated in Knott : "The bowl is Victorian and perfunctory; the shaft is medieval, and wonderful. It depicts eight Saints, standing in niches. Their heads were whacked off by 16th century protestants, and have since been replaced, but they are in the main in good condition, beautifully clear and identifiable. They include St Michael, St Andrew, St Margaret, St Catherine, St Christopher and the Blessed Virgin and child." The upper half of the underbowl chamfer appears to be part of the 19th-century basin, but the lower half is part of the 15th-century base; this earlier part of the chamfer is decorated with seven full angels holding a variety of objects (shield, book, etc.) and one with his hands together in prayer. The saint figures on the stem sides stand in trefoiled arches; the splayed lower base and plinth are octagonal.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.677409, 1.063369

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 38.67″ N, 1° 3′ 48.13″ E

UTM: 31U 369072 5838146

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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: 2009-08-06 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

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