North Elmham / Elmham / Elmenham

Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 October 2008 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/92024986@N00/3265100509] [accessed 17 August 2009]

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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

Scene Description: is the stem 19th-century as well?

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 October 2008 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/92024986@N00/3265100509] [accessed 17 August 2009]

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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel - 8

Scene Description: 19th-century basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 October 2008 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/92024986@N00/3265100509] [accessed 17 August 2009]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: ruins of the old Saxon (?) cathedral -- Photo caption: "Sometime after 1075 when the See was transferred to Thetford, it was converted into a manor house"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 3 July 1958 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/N Elmham Saxon cathedral ruin south side [4483] 1958-07-03.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: east view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 3 July 1958 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/N Elmham Saxon cathedral south side view E [4481] 1958-07-03.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: west view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 3 July 1958 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/N Elmham Saxon cathedral south side view W [4480] 1958-07-03.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Tower late 14c"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 August 1968 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/N Elmham St Mary Virgin church south side [5240] 1968-08-24.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - west side

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 August 2003 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/N Elmham Saxon cathedral ruin view west [7942] 2003-08-25.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel - south side

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Double piscina and triple sedilia south wall of chancel. Late 13c"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 4 June 1979 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/N Elmham St Mary Virgin church piscina [6011] 1979-06-04.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the interior of the present parish church, with the composite font in the foreground, left [north] side -- Photo caption: "The nave arcades, with alternate round and octagonal pillars, are Early English. The font is modern, with old 15c shafts"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 4 June 1979 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/N Elmham St Mary Virgin church interior E [6009] 1979-06-04.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the composite font and its cover at the west end, by the north-side arcade

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northelmham/northelmham.htm] [accessed 13 August 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the interior of the present parish church; the top of the late-date font is visible at the back [west], right [north] side

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 4 June 1979 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/N Elmham St Mary Virgin church interior W [6010] 1979-06-04.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the composite font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2008 by Brokentaco [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92024986@N00/3265100509] [accessed 17 August 2009]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the composite font in the present parish church [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 4 June 1979 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/N Elmham St Mary Virgin church interior E [6009] 1979-06-04.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2014]

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 October 2008 by Brokentaco [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92024986@N00/3265100509] [accessed 17 August 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15142ELM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 94 Holt Road, North Elmham, Norfolk NR20 5JX

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1110, 8 km N of East Dereham, 30 km WNW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, just N of the W entrance

Century and Period: 17th century[composite font?], Baroque [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font [modern basin]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1958, 1968, 1979 and 2003

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Elmham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9821/north-elmham/] [accessed 5 February 2014] with one church in it. Bolemefield (1805-1810) notes that the manor of Elmham "was held by Bishop Ailmar, in the time of the Confessor [i.e., Edward, last Anglo-Saxon king of England (+1066)] [...] In this manor of Elmham there was then a church, endowed with 60 acres [...] It appears that here was, in the Conqueror's and King Edward's time, a church, well endowed with 50 acres and a carucate of land. Herbert Bishop of Norwich is said to have new built it, in the reign of King William II. being so enjoined by the Pope, for his simony, and appropriated the rectory of this church to the priory of Norwich, founded by him". [NB: English Heritage [Listing NGR: TF9882321609] reports a "Former church converted into a fortified manor house. Probably built by Bishop Herbert de Losinga (1091-1119) on the site of the Anglo-Saxon Cathedral of Elmham. Converted by Bishop Despencer in late C14. Ferruginous conglomerate with flint core and ashlar dressings. Brick dressings to C14 work. Roofless. Western tower with semicircular stair turret, aisleless nave, continuous transept with armpit towers and apse. Evidence for ashlar dressed tower and west transept arches, north and south nave doorways and entrances into armpit towers. C14 work includes a semicircular tower base matching the original stair turret and several masonry partitions with brick dressings. The site is surrounded by C14 earthworks. S.E. Rigold "The Anglian Cathedral of North Elmham, Norfolk" Medieval Archaeology, VI-VII, 1962-3; S.R. Heywood, "The Ruined Church at North Elmham, "Journal of the British Archaeological Association,CXXXV, 1982. The building is also a scheduled Ancient Monument." Pevsner & Wilson (1999) mention a "Plain, C17" font in this church. Knott (2006) illustrates the font in the context of the church interior: an octagonal basin with shields in cusped panels, the underbowl moulded; on a pedestal; the font cover of openwork, on eight colonnettes that rest on the rim of the font. The basin and underbowl sections appear to be modern, perhaps 19th-century; the lower base and plinth appear earlier, Perpendicular; is the stem Victorian? The wooden cover is octagonal, with a frame around the rim of the font and eight thin shafts supporting the octagonal top with crocketed arrises and cross finial; probably 19th-century as well; it bears an inscription around the lower frame with the presentation information.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.754608, 0.944727

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 16.59″ N, 0° 56′ 41.02″ E

UTM: 31U 361297 5846954

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-13 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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