Flitcham/ Fliceswell / Flicham [Domesday] / Phlicham / Plica / Pliceham / Plicham

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005

Standing permission

Results: 6 records

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: EXT SW B&W photograph taken 14 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/F/Flitcham St Mary's church tower from SW [5862] 1977-09-14.jpg] [accessed 13 November 2013] Photo caption: "Flitcham cum Appleton. Norman central tower, and south transept ruin" PHOTOS digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/flitcham/flitcham.htm] [accessed 13 November 2013]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/F/Flitcham St Mary's church tower from SW [5862] 1977-09-14.jpg] [accessed 13 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/flitcham/flitcham.htm] [accessed 13 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - tower

Scene Description: with the ruins of the south transept to the left

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/flitcham/flitcham.htm] [accessed 13 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/flitcham/flitcham.htm] [accessed 13 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/flitcham/flitcham.htm] [accessed 13 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font and cover [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/flitcham/flitcham.htm] [accessed 13 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15046FLI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Flitcham, Norfolk PE31 6BX
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1153, about 10-15 km ENE of King's Lynn [it is part of the Royal Sandringham Estate]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Freebridge
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Blomefield (1805-1810) reports several entries under variant names of Flitcham for this place in the Domesday survey; the part that had belonged to Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury in pre-Conquest times, went to Roget Bigot after the Conquest, and "a church also belonged to it, with 8 acres [...] The Church of Flitcham consists of a nave, a south isle, with a porch, and a square tower in which hangs one bell, and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary; there has been a chancel and a north isle, now in ruins; the south isle is covered with lead, and the nave, and the porch are tiled. [...] This church was anciently a rectory: Daniel de Merlay was rector in 1199," The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. 1881, octagonal, of black marble [cf. infra], taken from St. Mary, Sandringham." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005): "was moved here from Sandringham by Edward VII, who also gave the benches as part of the 1907 refurbishment." The font is not made of black marble [cf. supra], but of an almost white stone [Caen?]; it does however have a set of thin collonnettes in black marble. The design of the font is a Victorian rendition of a 13th-14th font. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with crocketted arrises; appears 19th-century as well. [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the early church here]. Blomefield (ibid.) documents the foundation of a priory of Augustinian canons in Flitcham "in the beginning of the reign of Henry III" [1216-1272], but it not stated whether the priory had a church, and if it did we do not know whether any parochial services were carried out in it. White's Directory of 1845 reports "some remains" of the priory in the out-buildings of a farm-house.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.809416, 0.559185
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 33.9″ N, 0° 33′ 33.07″ E
UTM: 31U 335489 5853862

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
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: 2009-07-29 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999
White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845