Horning No. 2 / Holme / Horningham / Hulme

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/horning/horning.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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design element - patterns - crenellated

Image Source: detail of a digital October 2005 photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/horning/horning.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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design element - motifs - tracery

Image Source: detail of a digital October 2005 photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/horning/horning.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral - flower - 8-petal

Image Source: detail of a digital October 2005 photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/horning/horning.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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design element - motifs - piping

Image Source: detail of a digital October 2005 photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/horning/horning.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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view of church exterior - south view - east portal

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Priest's door on south side of chancel with 13c dog tooth moulding"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 July 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Horning St Benedict's church priest's door [6890] 1992-07-28.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "14c west tower and south aisle"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 July 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Horning St Benedict's church from SE [6889] 1992-07-28.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/horning/horning.htm] [accessed 29 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/horning/horning.htm] [accessed 29 April 2014]

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design element - motifs - piping

Image Source: detail of a digital October 2005 photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/horning/horning.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14891HOR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Decorated

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Benedict

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

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Benedict [aka Benet]

Church Address: Church Road, Horning, Norfolk NR12 8PZ

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located 5 km from Wroxham, 16 km from Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Hunstede

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Horning [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3516/horning/] [accessed 29 April 2014], but there is no mention of church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Horning was dedicated (as I take it) to St. Bennet; the rectory was appropriated to that abbey, and the vicarage was valued then at two marks, the rectory at 12 marks, in the reign of Edward I. there belonged to the vicar a manse, with an acre of land, the present valor is 4l. 13s. 4d. the presentation was in the abbot, and so came to the Bishops of Norwich. [...] John, occurs vicar in 1299." Listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a stone baptismal font of the Early English period. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, early C14, with simple tracery." The upper rim of the basin is crenellated but much damaged; the panels of the basin have simple tracery but the front side (east) has a large floral motif instead; the underbowl and base have piping at the angles all the way down to the lower base; on a two-step octagonal plinth. [cf. Index entry for Horning No.1 for the abbey 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 1992

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 397525 5839414

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.69493, 1.48366

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 41′ 41.75″ N, 1° 29′ 1.18″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 11: 42-46 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78740] [accessed 29 April 2014]
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 11: 51-57 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78743] [accessed 29 April 2014]
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. 561