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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1163028] [accessed 30 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "14thc" EXT SW digital photograph taken 14 February 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1163005] [accessed 2 April 2014] INT E digital photograph taken 14 February 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1163018] [accessed 2 April 2014] INT W digital photograph taken 14 February 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1163026] [accessed 2 April 2014] FONT+COVER CNTXT digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2048583] [accessed 2 April 2014]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 November 1994 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/F/Fring All Saints church from SE [7176] 1994-11-25.jpg] [accessed 2 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1163005] [accessed 2 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1163018] [accessed 2 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1163026] [accessed 2 April 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1163028] [accessed 30 July 2009]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave [looking east]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2048583] [accessed 2 April 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15054FRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 22 km NNE of King's Lynn

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Smethdon [Hundred of Docking?]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in November 1994

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Fring [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF7334/fring/] [accessed 2 April 2014], neither or which reports a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "The church stands on a rising hill, a little westward of the town, and is a single pile, covered with tile, and the chancel with lead, with a small tower of flint stones, &c. at the west end of the body, with one bell. [...] The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, and was a rectory [...] In the time of Edward I. the rector had a manse, and 40 acres of glebe [...] It was appropriated by Bishop Bateman to the priory of Norwich, on May 13, 1352 [...] No vicarage was apppointed, but the church was to be served by a stipendiary curate, paid by the convent, and at present paid by the dean and chapter, who hold the impropriation." The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Octagonal, C13, of the Purbeck type, with two shallow pointed arches on each side." The much damaged basin and the lower base may be original, both of octagonal shape, but the cylindrical stem is either modern or has totally re-cut. The wooden cover is plain, octagonal and flat; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.8832, 0.57765

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 59.52″ N, 0° 34′ 39.54″ E

UTM: 31U 337010 5862026

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

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