Hardingham / Flockthorp / Flockthorpe / Flocthorp / Flokethorp / Hardyngham / Tochesthorp / Tokesthorp / Tokethorp
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardingham/hardingham.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - cusped - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardingham/hardingham.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardingham/hardingham.htm] [accessed 29 March 2014]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Photo caption: "13c tower"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 30 April 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hardingham St George's church from SW [5775] 1977-04-30.jpg] [accessed 26 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardingham/hardingham.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15083HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. George
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Address: Church Road, Hardingham, Norfolk, NR9 4EL
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNE of Hingham, 9 km W of Wymondham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe [aka Forehou] -- Hundred and half of Mitford
Additional Comments: altered font / damaged font
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The town of Hardingham is not mentioned in the book of Domesday, and was then, no doubt, an hamlet or little village included in the township of Flockthorp, whereas that has been depopulated for many centuries, and is now included in Hardingham. F[lockthorp.] Is a village now included in Hardyngham, and contained all that part of the parish lying in Forehoe hundred, it is called Tokethorp in Dom[e]sday, [...] The whole of this village fell into Hardingham in Edward the Third's time [i.e., 1327-1377], and the name of it is quite forgotten." Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883 as the original font of the Early English period church. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as a font of the late 13th century: Octagonal, with trefoiled arches with leaf cusps on colonnettes, not an ordinary piece." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007): "elegant, venerable, broken font" of the 13th century. The basin is badly cracked on the sides; the base, consisting of a broad central shaft and eight outer colonnettes appears modern, perhaps 19th-century, as is probably the octagonal font cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 365662 5829032
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.59469, 1.01667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 35′ 40.88″ N, 1° 1′ 0.01″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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, vol. 10: 221-227 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78663] [accessed 19 March 2013]
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 2: 534-535 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78107] [accessed 19 March 2013]
- 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: 864
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory for Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1883, [transcribed in http://apling.freeservers.com/Villages/Hardingham.htm [accessed 4 August 2009]]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 379-380