Gimingham / Gimmingham / Gunningeham / Gunningham

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - 4

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

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

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 exterior - south view

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 church exterior - southeast view

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 interior - nave - looking east

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 font and cover

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 stoup

Scene Description: used now as a stoup; was it originally a piscina or a font?

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 14880GIM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Street, Gimingham, Norfolk, NR11 8HF

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1159, 10 km E of Cromer

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham

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

Century and Period: 14th century [re-cut], Decorated [altered]

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.878257, 1.395776

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 41.72″ N, 1° 23′ 44.8″ E

UTM: 31U 392041 5859933

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-23 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997