Letton nr. East Dereham / Letteuna / Lettuna / Letuna

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view of church exterior

the ruins of old All Saints' completely undiscernible now
Scene Description: the ruins of old All Saints' completely undiscernible now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken Januray 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/letton/letton.htm] [accessed 26 March 2014]
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view of church exterior in context

location of the ruins of old All Saints'
Scene Description: location of the ruins of old All Saints'
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken Januray 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/letton/letton.htm] [accessed 26 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15115LET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Letton, Thetford IP25 7PS
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 2 km ESE of Shipdham, 10 km S of East Dereham
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Mitford
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [wdigital photograph taken Januray 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of the ruins of this church
Church Notes: now in the parish of Cranworth
Font Notes:
There are three entries for Letton in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9705/letton/] [accessed 26 April 2014], one of which reports a church endowed with twelve acres of land in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes; "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints [...] In the 38th of Henry VIII. June 26 [1547], this church was consolidated to that of Cranworth". White's Directory of 1845 already reported that this medieval church "was dilapidated many years ago, and its site is now marked by a plantation". Pevsner & Wilson (1999) note just "scanty foundations" left of it. We have no information on its font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 358870 5831078

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999
White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845