Little Dunham / Dunham Parva
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
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Results: 7 records
view of font in context
Scene Description: near the south door
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel - 8
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
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"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littledunham/littledunham.htm] [accessed 5 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15118DUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: 2 School Lane, Little Dunham, Norfolk PE32 2DF
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original church here [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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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)]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 348312 5839228
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.68172, 0.75604
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 40′ 54.19″ N, 0° 45′ 21.74″ E
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, vol. 9: 477-481 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78600] [accessed 5 February 2014]
- 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. 520