Quidenham / Cuidenham / Guidenham
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: notice the greatly altered round tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/quidenham/quidenham.htm] [accessed 26 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/quidenham/quidenham.htm] [accessed 26 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end, centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/quidenham/quidenham.htm] [accessed 26 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1399604] [accessed 14 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 15064QUI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Quidenham Road, Quidenham, Norfolk, NR16 2PJ
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 3 km ENE of East Harling, 16 NE of Thetford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Giltcross [aka Guiltcross]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century [re-tooled?] / 19th century, Decorated [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of this church
Church Notes: round-tower church (greatly altered tower)
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for 'Cuidenham' (fol. 33) mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this parish in Blomefield (1805-1810) reads: "the church of this village is dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle [...] a small building, having its nave, chancel, and south porch tiled, the south isle and north dormitory leaded, a small steeple, round at bottom, and octangular at top, in which are three bells". Blomefield (ibid.) further notes its first recorded rector, "Will. de Swannington", the incumbent before 1274, but mentions no font in it. Illustrated in context in Knott (2006). Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, the underbowl with a short graded chamfer, on an octagonal stem with a single moulding; splayed lower base, also graded; octagonal plinth. The font has either been drastically re-tooled or dates from the 19th-century. [NB: we have no information on the font of the earlier [pre-Conquest?] church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 362832 5813066
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
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: 2009-08-14 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.