Harpley / Harpelai / Herpelai

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006

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Results: 9 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16

Scene Description: the Norman font [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: drawing in Guerney (1848) and in Jones (1879)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1866897] [accessed 18 November 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 July 1952 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Harpley St Lawrence's church from SE [4090] 1952-07-31.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - dado

Scene Description: the restored screen

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1866940] [accessed 18 November 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - ceiling

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Arch-braced with angels along cornice and ridge"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 July 1952 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Harpley St Lawrence's church 15c nave roof [4091] 1952-07-31.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1866913] [accessed 18 November 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font and cover visible at the west end through the chancel screen

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1866981] [accessed 18 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the moderrn font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/harpley/harpley.htm] [accessed 5 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Scene Description: the Norman font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: drawing in Guerney (1848) and in Jones (1879)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 15085HAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Church Lane, Harpley, Norfolk PE31 6TL
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 20 km ENE of King's Lynn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Freebridge
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of the modern font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1952
There are two entries for this place unedr "Harpelai" and "Herpelai" in the Domesday survey, but they mention neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) reports: "in the 4th of Edward I. when Cecilia claimed a right to the patronage of this church", that is, in 1276, but there is also a mention that "the advowson of this church [...] John le Coward, the champion of Matthew de Gournay, had by combat, gained it of the prior, in the reign of Henry II" [1154-1189], by which date there was a church in Harpley to be fought about. Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The Church is dedicated to St. Laurence the Martyr, and is a rectory, [...] The church has a nave, a north and south aisle, and a chancel, and was built by Sir Robert Knowls, a famous general in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II" [1327-1377 and 1377-1399 respectively]. 'The record of the House of Gournay', published in 1848, has a drawing of an octagonal font of the monolithic type, the basin part decorated with pairs of round arches or windows on each side; it stands agains a pillar, both raised, the base becoming a two-step plinth under the font. This same drawing appears in Eller (1861) and in 'Notes on Harpley Church', by Mrs. Herbert Jones, published by the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society's annual reports in 1879, the illustration captioned: "Norman font formerly in Harpley Church". [NB: this font is no longer in the church and was probably replaced with the present one in the renovation of the church in the 1870s]. A modern, 19th-century?, font is illustrated In Knott (2005). The present font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides totally covered in a rosette pattern, the underbowl angles decorated with ball flowers; raised on four clustered shafts with moulded capitals and bases, a square lowerr base and a two-step octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with a Latin cross finial. The font and cover probably date from the 19th-century renovation of this church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.801917, 0.65088
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 6.9″ N, 0° 39′ 3.17″ E
UTM: 31U 341641 5852822

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Eller, George, Revd., Memorials, archaeological and ecclesiastical, of the West Winch manors, from the earliest ages to the present period [...], King's Lynn: Printed (for private circulation) by Thew & Son, publishers, 1861
Guerney, Daniel, The record of the House of Gournay, London: Printed (for private distribution only) by Hohn Boyer Nichols and John Gough Nichols, 1848
Jones, Mrs. Herbert, "Notes on Harpley Church", VIII, Norfolk archaeology: or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to the antiquities of the county of Norfolk, 1879, pp. [17]-; r["References"]
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-05 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.