Dilham / Delham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
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Results: 9 records
design element - architectural - panel - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm] [accessed 28 April 2014]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm] [accessed 28 April 2014]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm] [accessed 28 April 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Largely rebuilt in 1931"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 29 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/D/Dilham St Nicholas' church south side [7291] 1995-10-29.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southwest end
![Photo caption: "Rebuilt in modern times, the church retains the base of the round tower. Used as a baptistry" [NB: the stump of the tower is actually 18th-century and nothing remains of the early-12th century original church here]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140428002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Rebuilt in modern times, the church retains the base of the round tower. Used as a baptistry" [NB: the stump of the tower is actually 18th-century and nothing remains of the early-12th century original church here]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 June 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/D/Dilham St Nicholas' church tower ruin [5828] 1977-06-12.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm] [accessed 28 April 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end, beneath the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm] [accessed 28 April 2014]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm] [accessed 28 April 2014]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: in the 'baptistery', the tower space
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dilham/dilham.htm] [accessed 28 April 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14869DIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Church Road, Dilham, Norfolk, NR28 9QB
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SSE of North Walsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Tunstede
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1977 and 1995
Church Notes: although the church has the stump of a round tower now, the stump itself is 18thC -- the CofE site informs: "Throughout the 18th century cracks in the tower foretold of impending disaster; the fabric of this lovely little church was dilapidate. The medieval building was demolished in the 18th century and replaced with a new building. This appears to have been done on the cheap, and 19th century additions and elaborations, like the round tower, could not prolong its life. So, it was demolished and completely rebuilt, the stump retained as a baptistery. So we see that in 1775 a bold attempt was made to restore the tower. It was poorly made and in 1835 had to be pulled down after 450 years of standing. It was replaced with a Round Tower, which after 70 years fell. In 1931 it was reduced to a ground floor Baptistery. There is a truncated round tower, and as you get closer you can see the clean lines and unknapped flint that indicates that there was a rebuild which took place as a rebuild in the 1930s."
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Dilham in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3325/dilham/] [accessed 28 April 2014], but thre is no mention of church or cleric in any of them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes about Dilham: "The family of the Glanviles were enfeoft of it: William de Glanvile was lord in the reign of Henry I. and gave the church to the priory of Bromholm", which would place a church here between 1100 and 1135. The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Late C14. Panelled stem. Bowl with an unusual tracery motif of three encircled quatrefoils in an apron below three trefoiled lights, repeated to each facet." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). [NB: we have no information on the font of the early-12th century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.782758, 1.448256
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 46′ 57.93″ N, 1° 26′ 53.72″ E
UTM: 31U 395343 5849233
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern
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: 2009-06-19 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997