Litcham / Lecham / Licham

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design element - architectural - arch or window - 8

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

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 - northeast view

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"

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 interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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 church interior - nave - looking east

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

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 font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/litcham/litcham.htm] [accessed 1 April 2008]

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view of font and cover in context

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 13466LIT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Litcham , Norfolk, PE32

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1145, 16 km ENE of Swaffham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.723686, 0.791866

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 43′ 25.27″ N, 0° 47′ 30.72″ E

UTM: 31U 350877 5843821

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: 2009-08-10 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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