North Tuddenham / Dodenham / North Tudenham / Toddenham / Tottenham

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animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: digital photograph February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northtuddenham/northtuddenham.htm] [accessed 13 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - unidentified

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

Image Source: digital photograph February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northtuddenham/northtuddenham.htm] [accessed 13 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Buttresses of the 14c tower have chequered pattern"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/N Tuddenham St Mary's church from NW [7185] 1995-06-17.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2014

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph February 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northtuddenham/northtuddenham.htm] [accessed 31 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph February 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northtuddenham/northtuddenham.htm] [accessed 31 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph February 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northtuddenham/northtuddenham.htm] [accessed 31 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northtuddenham/northtuddenham.htm] [accessed 13 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15146TUD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Mattishall Lane, North Tuddenham, Norfolk, NR20 3NJ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located E of East Dereham, 20 km W of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred and half of Mitford

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1995

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for [North] Tuddenham [variant spelling] in the Domsday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0512/north-tuddenham/] [accessed 31 March 2014]. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The two churches here mentioned, are the 2 moieties of this church, or rather Beaufoe's right in this church, and in that of Hokering [...] the moiety of a church which is there mentioned in Domesday Book, was undoubtedly the church of North-Tudenham [...] The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, and consisted of two medieties, one in the patronage of Beaufoe's manor, the other of that of Belhous. In the reign of Edward I.— Marshall was patron, and the rector of that mediety had then a manse, and 20 acres, and Sir Richard Belhouse, patron of the other; the rector of that had a manse, and 30 acres; John was rector of one mediety valued at 12 marks; and Richard of the other, valued also at 12 marks. The prior of Rumburgh had a portion of tithe [...] The church is a single pile, without any isle, covered with lead, and has a square tower, with one bell; the chancel is covered with tiles. Near the font is a marble gravestone," The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Lions' face against the foot, shields in cusped fields against the bowl." Illustrated in context in Knott (2006). The underbowl is also decorated, and there are trefoiled arches or windows on the sides of the stem; on a two-step plinth. [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.675493, 1.040006

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 31.78″ N, 1° 2′ 24.02″ E

UTM: 31U 367487 5837975

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: 2009-08-13 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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