Little Cressingham / Cressingham Parva / Parvo Cressingaham / Parvo Cressingham

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressingham.htm] [accessed 9 May 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressingham.htm] [accessed 9 May 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressingham.htm] [accessed 9 May 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressingham.htm] [accessed 9 May 2013]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: the two arches at the west end of the north side show the open west end of the nave; it was damaged when part of the tower collapsed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressingham.htm] [accessed 9 May 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressingham.htm] [accessed 9 May 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: showing the two (N+E) and a half (W) remaining walls of the tower -- the entrance to the church is now via the tower door visible here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressingham.htm] [accessed 9 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressingham.htm] [accessed 9 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: notice the short nave; the west end of it was damaged when the tower collapsed; a new west wall was built at the west end of the salvageable part of the nave; the former west end of the nave and he half-collapsed tower remain -- the font is visible at the back (west end), to the left (south side) of the door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressingham.htm] [accessed 9 May 2013]

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view of font and cover - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressingham.htm] [accessed 9 May 2013]

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view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressingham.htm] [accessed 9 May 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15117CRE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Little Cressingham, Norfolk IP25 6NT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 4 km S of Great Cressingham, 5 km WSW of Watton, on the edge of the Stanford Battle Area

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Greenhoe

Font Location in Church: Located in the S aisle [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of church and modern font

Church Notes: damaged church (partly collapsed tower and nave)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church is dedicated to St. Andrew, and has its nave, north and south isles, built of flint, &c. The roof of the nave is supported by stone pillars, forming 4 arches on the north side, and three on the south, the nave and south isle are covered with lead, but the north isle with tile; the old roof of this isle decaying some years past, the present roof is raised so that the spars cover part of the windows over the arches of the nave, and darken the church on that side; the east end of the north and south isles is taken in with oaken screens, and were anciently two chapels, [...] belonging most likely to the two manors; the holy water pot in the south isle is still to be seen; these chapels are now in a dirty condition, and unpaved. The church is in length about 51 feet, and in breadth, including the isles, about 40 [...] At the western part of the south isle of this church stood a foursquare tower of flint, &c. now in ruins, the east and north sides of it only remaining. A bell hangs on the north side of the tower, and is covered with a wooden cap." Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "1262, Philip occurs rector" [i.e., first recorded rector]. The present font is described and illustrated in Knott (2007): "The font is a good example of the simple Classical style that predominated in the decades before the Ecclesiological Movement of the 19th Century". It has an octagonal basin rounded at the underbowl and decorated with mouldings, raised on an octagonal pedestal base with trefoiled panels, a moulding splaying lower base and an octagonal plinth. The domed wooden cover is probably contemporary. The http://goodrick.info/little_cressingham.htm site [accessed 9 May 2013] notes: "The font is made of Caen stone and is a replacement one after the storm damage." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.56624, 0.76075

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 33′ 58.46″ N, 0° 45′ 38.7″ E

UTM: 31U 348231 5826376

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

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: 2009-08-10 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.