Gimingham / Gimmingham / Gunningeham / Gunningham
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Results: 8 records
view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gimingham/gimingham.htm] [accessed 23 June 2009]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gimingham/gimingham.htm] [accessed 23 June 2009]
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design element - motifs - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gimingham/gimingham.htm] [accessed 23 June 2009]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gimingham/gimingham.htm] [accessed 19 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gimingham/gimingham.htm] [accessed 19 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geogrge Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: photograph taken 30 October 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gimingham All Saints church south side [5882] 1977-10-30.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: used now as a stoup; was it originally a piscina or a font?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gimingham/gimingham.htm] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gimingham/gimingham.htm] [accessed 23 June 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14880GIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [re-cut], Decorated [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Street, Gimingham, Norfolk, NR11 8HF
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1159, 10 km E of Cromer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham
Additional Comments: altered font / re-cut font (the present one) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time period here)
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Gunningeham", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810) reports "a church endowed with 28 acres" in it; this author adds: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, and is a rectory; the patronage of it was granted by William, the first Earl Warren, to the priory of Lewes in Sussex, on his foundation of it", i.e., ca. 1081, and gives the first recorded rector of All Saints: "Joc. de Lund instituted about 1190, presented by the prior, &. of Lewes". The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Traceried stem, on the bowl four pairs of blank arches and four cusped pointed quatrefoils. All much recut." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006). The font consists of an octagonal basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base and lower base; on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal pyramidal, with crocketed arrises and decorated sides; probably 19th-century. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of the church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of 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 October 1977
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 392041 5859933
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.878257, 1.395776
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 52′ 41.72″ N, 1° 23′ 44.8″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 124-126 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78421] [accessed 19 September 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 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 475