Heacham / Hecham / Hitcham

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph September 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/heacham/heacham.htm] [accessed 2 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Late 13c crossing tower and nave"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 16 June 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Heacham St Mary Virgin church from SE [7332] 1996-06-16.jpg] [accessed 2 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph September 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/heacham/heacham.htm] [accessed 2 April 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the odd plinth

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph September 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/heacham/heacham.htm] [accessed 2 April 2014]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/heacham/heacham.htm] [accessed 5 August 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15086HEA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Heacham, Norfolk, PE31 7HH

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the A149, 5 km S of Hunstanton, 11 km from Sandringham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Smethdon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1996

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Heacham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF6837/heacham/] [accessed 2 April 2014] but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Mary, and built in a cathedral or conventual manner, has a nave, a north and south isle, with a north and south transept, or cross isles, and a chancel covered with lead, a square tower, and one bell. [... ] Adam de Walsoken was vicar before 1288". [NB: the fact that it was a vicarage by 1288 may indicate that it could have been a rectory earlier, and later associated with Lewes Priory. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) mention the present font here: "On cruciform steps. Square stem with quatrefoils and plain rather rounded bowl." Partially illustrated in Knott (2006). Neither source addresses the dating of the font. [NB: it is not clear whether or not the font is a whole one or a sum of parts [i.e., a composite]. The plain octagonal basin does not seem to fit the pedestal base or the cruciform plinth. The wooden cover is probably 19th-century].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.912657, 0.499376

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 54′ 45.56″ N, 0° 29′ 57.76″ E

UTM: 31U 331858 5865482

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

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.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999