Great Ellingham / Elincham / Elyngham / Helincham
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Gary Troughton [www.flickr.com/photos/gary_troughton/sets/72157604051396656/] [accessed 6 March 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: notice the damage caused by the anchoring staples of the old cover to the upper area
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - in a quatrefoil - barbed quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatellingham/greatellingham.htm] [accessed 29 March 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatellingham/greatellingham.htm] [accessed 29 March 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatellingham/greatellingham.htm] [accessed 29 March 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: the font visible beneath the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatellingham/greatellingham.htm] [accessed 29 March 2013]
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gary Troughton, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Gary Troughton [www.flickr.com/photos/gary_troughton/sets/72157604051396656/] [accessed 6 March 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15062ELL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Apostle
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Church Street, Ellingham Great, Norfolk, NR17 1LG
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km NE of Attleborough, 20 km S of East Dereham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Shropham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, in front of the organ
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Rectory manor. Always belonged to the rectors, for in the Conqueror's survey it appears that there were then divers lands and services belonging to the church; but at the appropriation in 1402, it was taken from it [...] The Church is dedicated to St. James the Apostle". A font in this church is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, with shields in barbed quatrefoils, i.e., Kentish tracery." Described and illustrated in Knott (2006): " The font, with shields in lozenges, is 14th century and must be contemporary with the grand rebuilding of the time. It is kept full of holy water to act as a stoup". The moulded and decorated [cf. supra] basin is raised on a plain stem, a moulded lower base and a one-step plinth, all octagonal in shape. [NB: we have no information on the font of the church that was mentioned in the 1086 Survey].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
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: 2009-07-31 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999