Deopham / Depham / Diepham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, January 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/deopham/deopham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, January 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/deopham/deopham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/deopham/deopham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the font in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/deopham/deopham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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
Font ID: 12781DEO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Vicarage Road, Deopham, Norfolk, NR18 9DR
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1146 church here)
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 365987 5825614
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.564059, 1.022845
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 33′ 50.61″ N, 1° 1′ 22.24″ E
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, vol. 2: 490-496 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78104] [accessed 19 March 2013]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 282
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 96-97