Hindolveston / Hilderston / Hidolfeston / Hidolfestuna / Hyndelveston
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 10 records
B01:
symbol - emblem - Trinity
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
B02:
symbol - Christ - the instruments of the Passion
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
B03:
New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
inscription
Scene Description: crowned letters M and T
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindolveston/hindolveston.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Scene Description: the new church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindolvestonold/hindolvestonold.htm] [accessed 4 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: the ruins of the church -- view of the remains of the tower from the southeast
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 June 1986 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hindolveston St George's church ruin from E [6400] 1986-06-25.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: the ruins of the church -- view of the remains of the church from the southeast
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindolvestonold/hindolvestonold.htm] [accessed 4 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: view of the church before the 1892 crashing of the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Landbrooke's drawing posted inside the church the church -- photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindolveston/hindolveston.htm] [accessed 4 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindolveston/hindolveston.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14887HIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George the Martyr [originally from the Old Church]
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Church Lane., Hindolveston, Norfolk, NR20 5BS
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 14 km S of Holt, 30 km WSW of Cromer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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 old church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1986
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "H[ilderston]. Called in the book of Domesday, Hidolfeston, was a lordship of the Bishop of Thetford, belonged to the see in King Edward's reign; and there were [...] and a church belonged to the manor, endowed with 26 acres [...] The Church is dedicated to St. George, was anciently a rectory, but appropriated by John de Grey Bishop of Norwich, to the priory, and a vicarage was settled [...] It contains a nave, a north and south isle, covered with lead, and a chancel, and has a tower with 4 bells; in 1445, John Swift of this town, gave a legacy to the building of the new tower" [cf. infra]. Farrer (1887 [1885?]) describes the arms on the shields of the present font: "On the Font. II. A cross {St. George, Argent, a cross gules.) -- III. Shield of the Passion, Cross, surmounted of the crown of thorns ; in base two whips in saltire. -- IV. Shield of the Crucifixion. -- V. Emblem of the Trinity." Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal. Crowned letters M and T against the stem, against the bowl the signs of the Evangelists, of the Trinity and of the Passion; also Crucifixion." Pevsner & Wilson ((ibid.) further inform that the old church was abandoned soon after the tower fell into the nave in 1870 [NB: the fall of part of the tower actually took place several years later: "''On Sunday 31 July 1892, the nave of the church of St George, was demolished when the eastern half of the tower fell on it" [source: probably from the interior of the new church; reproduced in www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=12302#.Uk8jgVmhk-I [accessed 4 October 2013]. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "its panels are vandalised and not recut, but clearly show the Crucifixion, Instruments of the Passion and a Holy Trinity symbol."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.821454,
1.008032
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 49′ 17.23″ N,
1° 0′ 28.91″ E
UTM: 31U 365775 5854268
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: initials
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the stem sides
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Farrer, Edmund, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, a description of all coats of arms […] now to be found in the county […], Norwich: A.H. Goose and Co., 1885-1893
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-24 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997