Langley nr. Loddon / Langahala / Langhala / Langhale / North Langale

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Results: 8 records

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langley/langley.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: some of the inscribed motifs appear to be rounded, but may be just worn

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langley/langley.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langley/langley.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langley/langley.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langley/langley.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: ruins of Langley Abbey -- Photo caption: "Remains of the Premonstratensian abbey. The cellerarium became a barn"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 23 May 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Langley Abbey ruin [6806] 1992-05-23.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "West tower 14c. The chancel remodelled in 1803"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 23 May 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Langley St Michael's church from SE [6805] 1992-05-23.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langley/langley.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15113LAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: Langley, Norfolk, NR14 6, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A146 [aka Norwich Rd.], near Loddon, 16 km SE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and the old abbey taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1992

Church Notes: ruined remains of the late-12thC Premonstratensian abbey located at 30 Langley Green, Langley with Hardley, Norfolk NR14 6DG

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Langley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3500/langley/] [accessed 4 March 2014], which mentions a church with church lands in it. From the Domesday entry Blomefield (1805-1810) notes some specifics related to the church here: "Here was one priest who in his own right, and 2 others who held by moieties, 100 acres of free land belonging to the church of St. Andrew. Blomefield (ibid.) also notes the "founding a monastery for canons of the Premonstratensian order here, in 1198 [...] Here were an abbot and 15 canons, of the Premonstratensian order, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin", to which the lord of the manor, "Sir Robert Fitz Roger, Helke, or De Clavering", gave the advowson of the church here. On the parish church Blomefield (ibid.) writes: "The Church was a rectory, dedicated to St. Michael, [...] and was appropriated to the abbey by Roger de Skerwyng, Bishop of Norwich, about 1270 [...] The church is a single pile, covered with lead, and the chancel with tiles, and has a square tower with bells." The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Big, simple, Perp[endicular]. Panelled stem, bowl with quatrefoils." Illustrated in Knott (2009). The font cosnists of an octagonal basin with deeply-carved vertical sides decorated with quatrefoils with inscribed floral motifs between mouldings at the upper rim and the moulded underbowl chamfer; the sides of the stem have trefoiled arches or windows; the splaying lower base has worn motifs on the sides, probably floral; stands on an octagonal plinth. [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.555201, 1.473162

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 33′ 18.73″ N, 1° 28′ 23.38″ E

UTM: 31U 396487 5823887

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-10 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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