Litcham / Lecham / Licham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
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Results: 17 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 1 April 2008]
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symbol - shield - blank - in a hexafoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 1 April 2008]
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view of church exterior - southeast end
Scene Description: Photo caption: “Largely 15c except for the tower which was rebuilt of brick towards the end of the 17c"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Litcham All Saints church from SE [5843] 1977-09-06.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 1 April 2008]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - dado - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 20 November 2013]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - dado - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 20 November 2013]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - dado - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 20 November 2013]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - dado - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 20 November 2013]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - dado - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 20 November 2013]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - dado - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 20 November 2013]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - dado - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 20 November 2013]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 20 November 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 20 November 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 20 November 2013]
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view of church interior - chest
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Probably 15c"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Litcham All Saints church mediaeval chest [5842] 1977-09-06.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 1 April 2008]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 1 April 2008]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13466LIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Litcham , Norfolk, PE32
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1145, 16 km ENE of Swaffham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries in the Domesday survey fot Litcham [variant spellings "Lecham" and "Licham"], the one which had been granted by the Conqueror to the ubiquitous Hermerus de Ferrariis having "the moiety of the church, with 4 acres", as noted in Blomefield (1805-1810), and described as: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, is a neat, regular pile, with a nave covered with reed, a north and south isle, and a chancel covered with lead; at the west end of the nave, a square tower of brick, with coins of free-stone, and embattled, with a clock and dial". The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with hung-up shields in cusped panels." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "The old font sits quietly at the west end, shields set within tracery on each side." The font consists of an octagonal basin -decorated as per Knott's description- with a chamfered underbowl, raised on an octagonal pedestal base with blind arches on the sides; the whole is raised on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is round, flat and plain; modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www,norfolkchurches.com, 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, 6 September 1977
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 350877 5843821
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.723686, 0.791866
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 43′ 25.27″ N, 0° 47′ 30.72″ 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. 10: 5-14 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78615] [accessed 20 November 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. 518