Felmingham / Felmicham / Felmincham / Felmingham

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/felmingham/felmingham.htm] [accessed 19 June 2009]

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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/felmingham/felmingham.htm] [accessed 19 June 2009]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/felmingham/felmingham.htm] [accessed 28 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Massive 15c west tower. The body of the church was rebuilt in brick in 1742 but Decorated windows were kept. The lofty tower arch is cut off by "dreadful modern roofs" (H Munro Cautley)"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 20 September 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/F/Felmingham St Andrew's church from SE [6912] 1992-09-20.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/felmingham/felmingham.htm] [accessed 28 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and its cover are barely discernible at the far [west] end, left [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/felmingham/felmingham.htm] [accessed 28 April 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/felmingham/felmingham.htm] [accessed 19 June 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14871FEL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Road, Felmingham, Norfolk NR28 0LJ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 4 km W of North Walsham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Tunstede

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] -- 14th century [stem only] -- [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: the base very similar to the one at Felbrigg

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Felingham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2529/felmingham/] [accessed 28 April 2014], one of which reports a church and churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) informs: "The Church is dedicated to St. Andrew, and there were 4 portions, or parts belonging to it, 3 of which were appropriated to the abbey of St. Bennet of Holm, [...] who had a manse, with one acre and a half of land [...]; this was in the time of Walter Suffeld Bishop of Norwich, and a vicarage was founded" [NB: Walter Suffield was bishop of Norwich 1244-1257]. The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. C14 stem, but C13 bowl of the familiar Purbeck type with two shallow arches against each of the eight sides." Described and illustrated in Knott (2006). The base is very similar to the one on the Felbrigg font, with eight clustered colonnettes with moulded caps and bases, the panels in between with trefoiled arches or windows; octagonal lower base. On an octagonal plinth. Tall wooden open-work cover, modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.815849, 1.344888

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 57.05″ N, 1° 20′ 41.6″ E

UTM: 31U 388457 5853069

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

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