Little Melton / Melton Parva / Parva Maltuna / Parva Meletuna
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
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Results: 4 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: details of a digital photograph by Simon Knott taken in December 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlemelton/littlemelton.htm] [accessed 19 February 2007]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott taken in December 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlemelton/littlemelton.htm] [accessed 19 February 2007]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott taken in December 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlemelton/littlemelton.htm] [accessed 19 February 2007]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: details of a digital photograph by Simon Knott taken in December 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlemelton/littlemelton.htm] [accessed 19 February 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12711CHA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Mill Road, Little Melton, Norfolk, NR9 3NS
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Humble-Yard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for the photographs of church and font.
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church is dedicated to all the Saints, and hath a square tower and three bells joined to its west end; the chancel and nave are thatched, the south porch tiled, and a south isle and north chapel leaded". Blomefield (ibid.) names the first recorded vicar here in 1275. The entry for Little Melton in Lewis' Directory of 1848 states: "the font is Norman". The font is illustrated in Knott's Norfolk Churches (2005). The large octagonal basin has pairs of shallow pointed arches on each face, which date the font rather to the Transitional period or later; there is a broad central shaft and eight smaller colonnettes, all plain, and an octagonal lower base [some parts of this base appear modern], and the whole is raised on a modern octagonal plinth. Dome cover with an octagonal base, brightly painted and with a significant dove-on-an-orbit finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.61716,
1.17899
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 37′ 1.78″ N,
1° 10′ 44.36″ E
UTM: 31U 376719 5831241
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: on the cover sides
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
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: 2007-02-19 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
