Deopham / Depham / Diepham

Standing permission

Results: 6 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, January 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/deopham/deopham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, January 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/deopham/deopham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/deopham/deopham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the font in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/deopham/deopham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/deopham/deopham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, January 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/deopham/deopham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 12781DEO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Vicarage Road, Deopham, Norfolk, NR18 9DR

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A11, 5-6 km N of Attleborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe [aka Forehou]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Andrew; when Norwich Domesday was made, the rector had a house, manor, and carucate of land; the vicar had a house and 3 acres of land, the vicarage was valued at 6 marks [...] The church is a good fabrick, having a large tower and five bells; the north and south isles and chapel are leaded." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Robert" as first recorded vicar here, in 1146. Tyrrell-Green (1928) notes a group of fonts in which "the geometrical or curved tracery occurs, not exactly in the same form as in the windows of the style, but adapted so as to fill square panels upon the sides of an octagnal font. The fashion is most common in Norfolk, in which county there are proportionately a greater number of fonts of this period than elsewhere. Excellent examples occur at Bintry [...], Deopham, Hilborough, Oxborough, Rockland All Saints', Sheringham, and Thompson--all in Norfolk. Other good specimens of the same kind of treatment are at Barton Mills (Suffolk), Kingsworthy (Hants), and Strubby (Lincs)." Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999). Described and illustrated in Knott (2006). The stem is octagonal and plain but for a moulding at the top. Two-step plinth with kneeling extension on both steps. The wooden cover is flat and round; appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the mid-12th century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.564059, 1.022845

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 33′ 50.61″ N, 1° 1′ 22.24″ E

UTM: 31U 365987 5825614

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

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: 2007-03-08 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928