Hockering / Hokelinka / Hokering / Hokryng
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Standing permission
Results: 16 records
UB01: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross
Scene Description: on the right side is St. Catherine (?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB03: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria?
Scene Description: on the right is St. Margaret
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB04: Apostle or saint - St. Margaret of Antioch - with dragon
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB05: New Testament - Virgin Mary - Madonna with Christ-child
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB06: Apostle or saint - St. Christopher and Christ-child
Scene Description: on the right is St. Michael
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB07: angel - archangel - St. Michael - slaying the dragon
Scene Description: on the left is St. Christopher; on the right is an unidentified saint (?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB08: Apostle or saint - male - unidentified
Scene Description: on the left is St. Michael
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
angel - holding object - 7
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
angel - hands together in prayer
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 26 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "15c tower"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
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 exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The church is badly over-restored. The windows are lancets or have Y- or intersected tracery"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
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 interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 26 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockering/hockering.htm] [accessed 26 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12653HOC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [stem only] -- 19th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, under the gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: The Street, Hockering, Norfolk, NR20 3HL
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: damaged font / vandalised font / restored font / repaired font (the present font) -- disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1205 church here)
Font Notes:
Click to view
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.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 369072 5838146
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.677409, 1.063369
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 40′ 38.67″ N, 1° 3′ 48.13″ E
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, vol. 228-231 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78664] [accessed 26 March 2014]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51035] [accessed 8 February 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 408