Hellesdon / Hailesduna / Haylesdon

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850796] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850796] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850796] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850769] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 August 1964 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hellesdon St Mary's church from SW [4854] 1964-08-28.jpg] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/850777] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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view of church interior - north aisle - looking west

Scene Description: the baptismal font at the far end, left side

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14885HEL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Low Road, Hellesdon, Norfolk, NR6 5AT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located W of Norwich, now a suburb of it

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Taverham

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in August 1964

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Hellesdon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2010/hellesdon/] [accessed 15 April 2014], and it reports a church in it but no church lands. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary [...] The church is a small pile, consisting of a body, or nave, and a chancel, and a north isle that runs the length of the body, all covered with lead; and has an octangular tower, and one bell, with a cap, or cupola of wood, covered with lead." Blomefield (ibid.) further notes: "On the deprivation of Stigand Archbishop of Canterbury, (who held it as a lay fee) the Conqueror granted it to Godwin Halden [...] This Godwin Halden seems to be of Danish extraction, and one thing is remarkable of him, that he held under Earl Guert, brother of King Harold, the lordship of Nettington in Smethdon hundred, in King Edward's time, and at the Conquest, when he was also rewarded with this lordship, those of Oxnead and Bernham in South Erpingham and Fourhow hundreds; a proof that he was a rebel against King Harold, and assisted the Conqueror." The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, with quatrefoils, on a shafted stem." [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.648825, 1.251674

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 55.77″ N, 1° 15′ 6.02″ E

UTM: 31U 381724 5834641

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: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

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