Little Dunham / Dunham Parva

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

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott

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human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott

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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 April 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Lt Dunham St Margaret's church 13c S door [5504] 1976-04-19.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Late 14c tower and 16c porch"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 16 October 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Lt Dunham St Margaret's church tower [7078] 1993-10-16.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littledunham/littledunham.htm] [accessed 5 February 2014]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: near the south door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15118DUN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: 2 School Lane, Little Dunham, Norfolk PE32 2DF

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located just S of Great Dunham, about 8 km NE of Swaffham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Dunham in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/great-and-little-dunham/] [accessed 5 February 2014], neither of which mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes there is no specific entry for Little Dunham/Dunham Parva in the Domesday book, and writes: "The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Margaret", the first recorded rector of which is given as "Roger de Swanton, rector, presented by Sir John de Dunham, Knt.", in 1308, this date being the earliest reference to a church here noted in Blomefield. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields in quatrefoils and heads on the underside." Illustrated in Knott (2007). The cusped panels are of the 'Kent type'; the heads have individualised features; the sides of the octagonal stem have cinquefoiled arches or windows. On a two-step plinth. [NB: the church dates back to the 13th-14th century, and Pevsner & Wilson (1999) report a fragment of an Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft in this church, but we have no information on the earlier font(s)]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.68172, 0.75604

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 54.19″ N, 0° 45′ 21.74″ E

UTM: 31U 348312 5839228

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