Marlingford / Marthingefordam

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/807435] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/marlingford/marlingford.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/marlingford/marlingford.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/marlingford/marlingford.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: only the basin is medieval

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/marlingford/marlingford.htm] [accessed 11 August 2009]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/807435] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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view of font base

Scene Description: notice the inscription; probably of the 19th century, as the columnar base above

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/807435] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15125MAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Church Road, Marlingford, Norfolk NR9 5HP

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 10 km W of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe [aka Forehou]

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

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary [...] The church is 35 feet long, and 15 broad, the chancel 28 feet long, and 14 broad, the north isle 22 feet long, and 10 broad; the tower is square, there are three bells, and the nave and chancel are thatched." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Walter de Hiltone" as first recorded rector, in 1303, and the Domesday entry for 'Marthingefordam' (fol. 178) he cites mentions neither church nor priest in it. The font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, of Purbeck marble, with two shallow blank arches on each side; C13." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "As is common in this part of Norfolk, the font is a Purbeck Marble bowl, reset on Victorian legs as at Easton and Swannington. It looks rather curious here, because these 'off-the-shelf' bowls were mass-produced, and were generally considered a cheap 14th century option. Here it looks out of place on such a grand setting." The columnar base is modern, as is the lower base with its inscription.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.631277, 1.142176

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 52.6″ N, 1° 8′ 31.84″ E

UTM: 31U 374267 5832875

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble) [basin only]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round; modern

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: 2009-08-11 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999