Hindringham / Hindringaha / Hindringaham

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: St. John's symbol on the right panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindringham/hindringham.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Scene Description: in the centre panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindringham/hindringham.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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coat of arms - Royal Arms of England and France

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindringham/hindringham.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindringham/hindringham.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindringham/hindringham.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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inscription

Scene Description: crowned letters M and T

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindringham/hindringham.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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symbol - shield - emblem - Trinity

Scene Description: on the panel to the left of the Crucifixion

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindringham/hindringham.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: in the centre panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindringham/hindringham.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hindringham St Martin's church from SE [5852] 1977-09-09.jpg] [accessed 11 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2032392] [accessed 11 December 2013]

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view of church interior - chest

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Probably early 13c"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hindringham St Martin's church 13c chest [5851] 1977-09-09.jpg] [accessed 11 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2032398] [accessed 11 December 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2032410] [accessed 11 December 2013]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hindringham/hindringham.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14888HIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: The Street, Hindringham, Norfolk NR21 0PR

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 14 km NE of Fakenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of North Greehow

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1977

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are six entries for Hindringham in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9836/hindringham/] [accessed 11 December 2013], none of which mentions either church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church was anciently a rectory, dedicated to St. Martin, [...] and was appropriated to the office of the cellarer, in the priory of Norwich, by John de Grey Bishop, and a vicarage established"; Bishop de Gray [aka Grey] died in 1214 [Roy Martin Haines, ‘Gray, John de (d. 1214)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11541, accessed 11 Dec 2013]], which puts the founding date of the church here between 1086 and 1214. Farrrer (1887 [1885?]) describes the shields on the font: "IV. Quarterly : — 1 and 4, France (modem) ; 2 and 3, England. -- V. A cross surmounted of a crown of thorns between two nails ; in dexter chief, three dice ; in dexter base, whip, scourge, and spear ; on the sinister side, a ladder ; and in sinister base, pincers and reed, with sponge, Shield of the Passion. -- VI. Emblem of the Trinity. " Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) in much the same terms as the font at Hindolveston: crowned letters on the stem [the same M and T letters here as well]; on the basin sides the symbols of the Evangelists, emblem of the Trinity, shield charged with the Instruments of the Passion, and Crucifixion; additionally on this font, "the arms of England quartering France". Described and illustrated in Knott (2005): "Hindringham's 15th century font is similar to that nearby at Wighton, with a Crucifixion, Instruments of the Passion and a Holy Trinity symbol along with heraldic shields." The octagonal basin has round colonnettes with caps and bases at the angles; the underbowl chamfer is moulded and has eight grotesque human heads on the lower volume; the stem is octagonal and has mouldings and piping at the angles, while the panels themselves have the crowned letters under tracery motifs; moulded lower base, also octagonal. Two-step octagonal plinth, the sides of the upper step decorated with quatrefoil motifs. The wooden cover is octagonal and box-like, with a crenellated top.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.889299, 0.949095

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 21.47″ N, 0° 56′ 56.74″ E

UTM: 31U 362019 5861926

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the stem sides

Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [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