South Pickenham / Pichenham / Pikenham / Pinkenham

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design element - architectural - arch-head - cusped - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southpickenham/southpickenham.htm] [accessed 27 June 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southpickenham/southpickenham.htm] [accessed 27 June 2009]

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design element - motifs - piping

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southpickenham/southpickenham.htm] [accessed 27 June 2009]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southpickenham/southpickenham.htm] [accessed 27 June 2009]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southpickenham/southpickenham.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southpickenham/southpickenham.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southpickenham/southpickenham.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font visible at the west end, centre aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southpickenham/southpickenham.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southpickenham/southpickenham.htm] [accessed 27 June 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14906PIC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Pound Hill, South Pickenham, Norfolk PE37 8DS

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km SSE of Swaffham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of South Greenhoe

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

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In the reign of King Edward I [i.e., 1272-1307] here were two churches, that of All-Saints valued at 5 marks, and that of St. Andrew, [...] which were consolidated [...] The Church of South Pickenham is dedicated to All the Saints, and is a single building, having only one isle or nave of flint, &c. in length about 42 feet, and in breadth about 16, with a roof of oak, covered with lead [...] At the west end of the nave is a very antique round tower, and on that an octangular top, raised some centuries after, and on the decay of the other, which was very probably built by Edric the Danish lord. On the summit is a little shaft; in this tower hang three bells. The chancel is divided from the nave by a wooden screen, and is 24 feet in length, and about 18 in breadth, and covered with reed." This is the church that has rmained to the present. On the second church in South Pickenham Blomefield (ibid.) writes: "At the great survey [...] here was also a church with 17 acres, and a wood, and was built by Edric in the Confessor's time. [i.e., 1042-1046] [...] and we find that the church abovementioned, which was dedicated to St. Andrew, was, in the time of Edward I. in the said priory" [i.e., the priory of Westacre], and he records: "St. Andrew's is totally dilapidated, and the Prior of Westacr[e] had it appropriated to him". The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C14. Octagonal. The stem curves out into the bowl. Rolls at the angles. Pointed quatrefoils on the bowl." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007) with date in the 14th century. The font is of the type which tapers off from the bottom of the octagonal basin, the piping at the angles carrying all the way down the base; the basin has large pointed quatrefoils on the sides; the underbowl has cusped arch-heads; the lower base is moulded. The wooden cover appears modern, a platform with raised arches. [NB: we have no information on either of the two early fonts of the two churches here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.603212, 0.740771

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 11.56″ N, 0° 44′ 26.78″ E

UTM: 31U 347006 5830529

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

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: 2009-06-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999