Wickhampton / Wicha'tuna

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 23 June 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wickhampton St Andrew's church from SE [7348] 1996-06-23.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph September 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wickhampton/wickhampton.htm] [accessed 22 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: one of the wall paintings is visible on the left [north] wall

Image Source: digital photograph September 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wickhampton/wickhampton.htm] [accessed 22 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: one of the wall paintings is visible on the left [north] wall -- the modern font is visible at the far [west] end

Image Source: digital photograph September 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wickhampton/wickhampton.htm] [accessed 22 May 2014]

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view of church interior - north wall - painting

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven Acts of Mercy wall painting, north wall of nave"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 August 1979 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wickhampton St Andrew's church wallpainting [6033] 1979-08-06.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - north wall - painting

Scene Description: Photo caption: "3 living and 3 dead wall painting, north wall of nave. Uncovered in the 1870s"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 August 1979 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wickhampton St Andrew's church wallpainting [6034] 1979-08-06.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font of 13th-century style

Image Source: digital photograph taken by 22 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4374425292/] [accessed 22 May 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14964WIC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Road, Wickhampton, Norfolk, NR13

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 13 km W of Gt. Yarmouth

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Walsham

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1979 and 1996

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There are two entries for Wickhampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4205/wickhampton/] [accessed 22 May 2014], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "William de Corton and Clementia his wife, as trustees, settled on Sir William de Gerberge of Wickhampton, and Joan his wife, 7 messuages, a mill, 2 carucates of land, — of meadow, 300 of marsh, with 50s. rent in this town, Tunstal, Halvergate, Mouton, &c. with the advowson of Wickhampton church, for their lives and in tail. [[...] William de Jerbridge was living in the 24th of Henry III" [i.e., 1240] [...] The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Andrew." [NB: there appear to be several related William de Gerberge [aka Gerberga / Gerbridge / Gerbrygg / Gerbrygge / Jerbridge], so it is difficult to assign the earliest date of the church based on the transaction ca. 1240 above]. The present octagonal font in this church is of 13th-century design -an octagonal basin raised on a columnar base- but dates probably from the 19th-century restoration [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.592963, 1.582194

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 35′ 34.67″ N, 1° 34′ 55.9″ E

UTM: 31U 403961 5827937

REFERENCES

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