Thornham Parva / Little Thornham

Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
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Results: 8 records
design element - motifs - tracery - varied
view of church exterior - north view
view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: Thornham Parva: St. Mary's Church: The chancel, nave and tower are all thatched in Norfolk reed"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4732766] [accessed 20 November 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 14441THO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Bull Road, Thornham Parva, Suffolk IP23 8ES
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A140, just N of Thornam Magna, 3 km W of Eye
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Hartismere [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photograph of this font, and to Robert Wilkes for his drawing of the church exterior
Church Notes: Norman building; inside, medieval paintings and a medieval retable originally from Thetford Priory
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are two entries for Thornham [Parva] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM1072/thornham-parva/] [accessed 20 November 2016], one of which mentions "0.8 churches. 0.08 church lands." in it. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, E[arly] E[nglish], with an octagonal bowl." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with varied tracery motifs on its sides; raised on a plain octagonal stem and a moulded lower base; the octagonal plinth may be of a later date, perhaps modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.311423,
1.092899
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 18′ 41.12″ N,
1° 5′ 34.43″ E
UTM: 31U 369993 5797389
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: low pyramidal octagonal, turned knob/finial; modern
REFERENCES
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855