Mileham / Meleham

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design element - motifs - moulding

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

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design element - motifs - moulding

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

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - 8

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

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design element - motifs - tracery

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

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The east side of the tower. The lower part of 13-14c acts as a porch. It has a traceried stone parapet"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Mileham St John Baptist church from NE [7193] 1995-06-17.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Mileham St John Baptist church south side [7192] 1995-06-17.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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

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view of font

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15128MIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: The Street, Mileham, Norfolk, PE32 2RD

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1145, 12 km NW of East Dereham

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

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Mileham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9219/mileham/] [accessed 11 February 2014], but none mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Mileham is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and consists of a nave, a north and south isle, with a chancel, all covered with lead. [...] The font is of stone, with an handsome top or covering of wood [...] 1323, John le Mareschal, presented to the rectory by Edmund Earl of Arundel." This date, 1323, appesr to be the earliest in which a church is noted in Blomefield (ibid.) The present font here is noted in The Aniquary (isssue of October 21th, 1871, p. 152): "The font is of the 15th or 16th century". Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with traceried stem and pointed quatrefoils against the bowl." Illustrated in Knott (2006), who mentions that there appears to be evidence of an earlier Norman church in the chancel. Some damage to the basin; raised on a narrow octagonal plinth with stepping stone; medieval glazed tiles set on the top surface of the plinth.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 15″ N, 0° 50′ 02″ 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

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