Didlington / Dudlington / Dudelingtuna / Dudelingatuna
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Results: 7 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/didlington/didlington.htm] [accessed 22 July 2009]
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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/didlington/didlington.htm] [accessed 22 July 2009]
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UB01: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/didlington/didlington.htm] [accessed 22 July 2009]
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UB02: symbol - shield - blank - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/didlington/didlington.htm] [accessed 22 July 2009]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/didlington/didlington.htm] [accessed 22 July 2009]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/didlington/didlington.htm] [accessed 22 July 2009]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the font in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/didlington/didlington.htm] [accessed 22 July 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15021DID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] -- 14th - 15th century [base only] -- [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Didlington, Thetford IP26 5AT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1366 727244
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km WSW Swaffham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of South Greenhoe
Additional Comments: composite font 13th and later
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church of Dudlington [sic] is a regular structure, having a nave and south and north isles, covered with lead; the length of the nave is about 49 feet, and the breadth, including the isles, about 40 feet; the rest of the nave is of oak, and the vault of it is supported by octangular pillars, forming 8 arches, 4 on a side. [...] at the west end of this nave stands a four-square tower of flint, (as the church is,) with quoins and embattlements of free-stone; in this tower were lately three bells [...] The chancel is divided from the nave by an ancient screen, and is in length about forty, and in breadth about 16 feet, and has an ascent of three steps to the communion table, which is railed in [...] The church of Dudlington was formerly a rectory, and in the patronage of the Earls of Warren and Surry, and John Earl Warren is said, about the year 1300, to have given the presentation to the convent of Marham in Norfolk." Blomefield (ibid.) names "William de London" as first recorded "rector in the time of Heny III" [i.e., 1216-1272]. The dedication of the church is not given in Blomefield (ibid.) or in Cambers (1829). Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, "the base is later". Pevsner & Wilson (1999) write: "The bowl octagonal, C13, of Purbeck marble and with the characteristic two shallow arches to each side, unfortunately whitewashed. The stem is Dec[orated] or Perp[endicular]." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2009): "The familiar 13th Century Purbeck Marble font, which you might have assumed was original to the building of the church, is set on a less usual late medieval pillar, suggesting that it was brought here in later years, perhaps by the Victorians." The underbowl chamfer has a floral motif on each side; the trefoiled arches of the stem have blank shields carved in them; on a two-step plinth.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 338765 5823855
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.540878, 0.622435
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 32′ 27.16″ N, 0° 37′ 20.77″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble) [basin only]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 87-94 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78233] [accessed 8 May 2013]
- Chambers, John, A General History of the County of Norfolk, intended to convey all the information of a Norfolk tour […], Norwich: J. Stacy, 1829, vol. 2: 625
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 76
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, 298-299