Little Ellingham / Ailincham / Aluncham / Elingham / Ellingham Parva
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font, 1869, as per inscription on its base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littleellingham/littleellingham.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littleellingham/littleellingham.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littleellingham/littleellingham.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15119ELL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Street, Little Ellingham NR17 1JN
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km SSW of Hingham, 8 km ESE of Watton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe [aka Forehou]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one of the early-14th century church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Peter [...] The tower is square, and stands on the south side of the church, and serves for a porch; there is only one bell; the church and chancel are tiled, the N[orth] vestry is ruined: it is neat and clean, being new repaired and beautified", and names "Hugh Perpunt of Kilverdeston" as its first recorded rector, in 1317. Three entries for this parish in Domesday (fol. 31, 32, Elingham; fol. 90, Ailincham; fol. 118, Aluncham] without a mention of church or priest in it. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, of porphyry, 1869". Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006). Octagonal basin in porphyry, decorated with symbols and raised on a central shaft and nine angle colonnettes of green marble, on a cylindrical lower base; this lower base has an inscription that includes the date '1869', presumably the date of the font. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and handle; probably contemporary with the font. [NB: we have no information on the font of the early-14th century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of this church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 361465 5824575
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.553592, 0.956617
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 33′ 12.93″ N, 0° 57′ 23.82″ E
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: 1) on the basin side; 2)around the lower base
Inscription Text: 1) "xri"
2)"[…]marion - isabel - 1869 [..]"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 2: 287-290 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78069] [accessed 14 March 2013]
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 2: 490 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78103] [accessed 19 March 2013]
- 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. 521