Thorpe-next-Haddiscoe / Thorp by Hadesco / Thorpe by Haddiscoe / Thorpe nr. Haddiscoe

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thorpenexthaddiscoe/thorpenexthaddiscoe.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Norman north doorway now blocked

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 April 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thorpe next Haddiscoe Norman north door [5492] 1976-04-17.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 April 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thorpe next Haddiscoe Norman south door [5491] 1976-04-17.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Tower pre-conquest in its lower stages. The top stage Norman"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 April 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thorpe next Haddiscoe St Matthias's church [5490] 1976-04-17.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thorpenexthaddiscoe/thorpenexthaddiscoe.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15214THO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthias [aka St. Matthew's]

Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew

Church Location: Church Road, Haddiscoe, Norfolk NR14 6PT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located near Haddiscoe, 8 km E of Loddon, 16 km SW of Yarmouth

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Clavering

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

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 Aprl 1976

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is no entry found in Domesday for this locality, being included under the entries for Haddiscoe and Aldeby. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Matthew, and consisted of two medieties. In the 18th of Hen. III. Andrew Wascelein granted by fine to John Roscelyne, the advowson of a mediety, and in the reign of Edward I. William Roscelyn was patron of a mediety valued at 40s. and Robert de Lodne, patron of the other", which means a church was here by 1234 at the latest, and probably much earlier, as the bottom of the tower here may be pre-Conquest, the upper part Norman. The present font here is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Square, Norman, of Purbeck marble, with, on each side, four shallow blank arches. The stem has corner shafts." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005): "Unusually for churches in this part of Norfolk, the font is very old, late Norman, when so many others were replaced in the 15th century. It may be because this square Purbeck marble structure is plain and undecorated, apart from blank arcades". Raised on a new polygonal plinth.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.526261, 1.589883

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 34.54″ N, 1° 35′ 23.58″ E

UTM: 31U 404336 5820507

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

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: 2009-09-01 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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