Mileham / Meleham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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Results: 9 records
view of font
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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 - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
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 interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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
Font ID: 15128MIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17535376
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: The Street, Mileham, Norfolk, PE32 2RD
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1145, 12 km NW of East Dereham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch
Additional Comments: damaged font? (the present one) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original 14thC (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
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, vol. 10: 15-25 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78617] [accessed 11 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. 543