Godwick / Goduic / Hendwyck
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15060GOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [in ruins]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Litcham, about to km SSW of Fakenham
Historical Region: Hundred of Laundich [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Godwick [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF9022/godwick/] [accessed 5 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Chambers (1829) notes that there is and entry for this church in the Domesday Book, and also that by Blomefield's time "nothing remained of the church but its ancient steeple" [NB: the reference is to Francis Blomefield's history of Norfolk, the first volume of which was published in 1739 -- we assume that the original font of that church has disappeared].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 352710 5847993
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.761666, 0.817124
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 45′ 42″ N, 0° 49′ 1.64″ E
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a history of Norfolk, Fersfield, Norwich and Lynn: [Printed in the author's own press], 1739-1755
- 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: 825