Tilney All Saints No. 1 / Tilingetuna / Tilinghetuna

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tilneyallsaints/tilneyallsaints.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tilneyallsaints/tilneyallsaints.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "13c tower with 14c upper part and stone spire"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 October 1955 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Tilney All Saints church from SE [4405] 1955-10-06.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph July 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tilneyallsaints/tilneyallsaints.htm] [accessed 28 November 2013]

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view of church exterior - west end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph July 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tilneyallsaints/tilneyallsaints.htm] [accessed 28 November 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - northeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Late Norman north arcade with screen 1618"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 October 1955 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Tilney All Saints church interior view NE [4408] 1955-10-06.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

FontID: 15221TIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Tilney All Saints, Norfolk, PE34 4SJ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 8 km W of King's Lynn, on a local road connecting the A17 and the A47

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Freebridge

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font; grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in October 1955

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Tilney in the Domesday survey under the variant spellings of "Tilingetuna" and "Tilinghetuna", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810), neither of which mentions church or cleric in it. Blomefield (ibid.) describes the church here: "The Church of Tilney is dedicated to all the Saints, and is a large building, consisting of a nave, north and south isle, with a chancel covered with lead; at the west end stands a square tower, with pinnacles, and - - bells therein; on the tower, a spire of free-stone", and mentions the font in passing: "Robert Howsson, vicar, wills to be buried in the place, where the font formerly stood, in the church of All-Saints, Tilney", indicating a move of the font elsewhere in the church. This Robert Howsson appears in the list of vicars: Robert Housson, or Howysson, occurs vicar 1442, and 1430", list that starts with the first one recorded in 1372, the vicarage having been settled in 1359 when "Edward III. in his 32d year, granted a patent to appropriate it to Pembroke-Hall, in Cambridge," Previously it had been a rectorate, the first recorded rector being "Godfrey de Acre occurs rector in the 22d of Edward I" [i.e., 1294], this being the earliest date recorded in relation to the church at Tilney. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) write of two fonts in this church: "One with an octagonal Perp[endicular] bowl." Illustrated in Knott (2005). The old basin appears to have been cut and put to other uses for a long time before being restored to the church. It is now [2005] mounted on unrelated blocks and kept inside the church as part of a collection of old stones from the church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.73662, 0.3213

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 11.83″ N, 0° 19′ 16.68″ E

UTM: 31U 319157 5846338

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

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