Hockham / Great Hockham / Hocham / Hockham

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by Everly Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2025025] [accessed 28 February 2013]

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design element - patterns - tracery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockham/hockham.htm] [accessed 6 August 2009]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockham/hockham.htm] [accessed 28 February 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

EXT SE digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockham/hockham.htm] [accessed 28 February 2013]
EXT NE digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockham/hockham.htm] [accessed 28 February 2013]
INT E digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by Everly Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2024970] [accessed 28 February 2013]
INT W digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by Everly Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2025022] [accessed 28 February 2013]
FONT digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by Everly Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2025025] [accessed 28 February 2013]

Scene Description: EXT SE digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockham/hockham.htm] [accessed 28 February 2013] EXT NE digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockham/hockham.htm] [accessed 28 February 2013] INT E digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by Everly Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2024970] [accessed 28 February 2013] INT W digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by Everly Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2025022] [accessed 28 February 2013] FONT digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by Everly Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2025025] [accessed 28 February 2013]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hockham/hockham.htm] [accessed 28 February 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by Everly Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2025022] [accessed 28 February 2013]

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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by Everly Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2024970] [accessed 28 February 2013]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15095HOC

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1320?

Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Decorated

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

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

Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity

Church Notes: very good medieval paintings in the church

Church Address: High Street, Great Hockham, Norfolk, IP24 1NZ

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the A1075, 10 km from Watton and Attleborough, 13 km from Thetford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Shropham

Additional Comments: damaged font: at the upper rim; consistent with damage caused by the removal of the metal staples of the old cover -- disappeared font? (the one from the loriginal church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Hocham (hoc-ham) [...] was a rectory appendant to the manor till the year 1227 [...] The Church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and hath no tower; the ruins of one that hath been dilapidated many years, lie at the west end of the church". This auhtor (ibid.) names the first reported vicar "John de Reding of Berningham, priest", in 1349. The Domesday entry (fol. 116) cited in Blomefield (ibid.) uses the spelling 'Hockham' and mentions neither church nor priest in it [NB: the Domesday entry in fol. 127 uses 'Hocham', but it may refer to 'Little Hocham']. A baptismal font in this church is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, with flat [g]eometrical tracery; probably of c. 1320 since tracery patterns on fonts lagged twenty or thirty years behind tracery in windows." Illustrated in Knott (2008). The vertical sides of the octagonal basin are decorated with tracery that includes crude quatrefoils and pointed windows; one side of the upper rim is badly damaged; raised on a slender octagonal pedestal base. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat; appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 355549 5817880

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.491909, 0.872329

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 29′ 30.87″ N, 0° 52′ 20.38″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 1: 450-459 / www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=77134] [accessed 28 February 2013]
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 1: 459-464 / www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=77135] [accessed 28 February 2013]
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. 409