West Harling / Herling Thorp / West Harlyng / West Herling / West Herlyng
Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
CC-BY-SA-3.0
Results: 10 records
design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: on alternate sides of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1709381] [accessed 12 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1709381] [accessed 12 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1709381] [accessed 12 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1709381] [accessed 12 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
symbol - shield - blank - 4
Scene Description: on alternate sides of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1709381] [accessed 12 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph December 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westharling/westharling.htm] [accessed 26 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph December 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westharling/westharling.htm] [accessed 26 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph December 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westharling/westharling.htm] [accessed 26 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1709381] [accessed 12 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, by the tower arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph December 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westharling/westharling.htm] [accessed 4 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15241HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: West Harling, Thetford, Norfolk, NR16 2SE
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km WSW of East Harling, 12 km NE of Thetford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Giltcross [aka Guiltcross]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
Click to view
There are five entries for Harling [East and West] [variant spelling in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/east-and-west-harling/] [accessed 29 June 2014], of which one, under the tenancy of William of Ecouis and the lordship of Ingulf, reports a church and churchlands in it. [NB: the church corresponds to the East Harling part]. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to all the Saints, having its nave and chancel tiled, a square tower, with a tall freestone spire on it", and mentions no font in it, but reports that one of its rectors, a "Ralf Full of Love", who died in 1479 and has a gravestone in this church, "gave 10l. to build a new font in Hingham church". A font in this church is described in Pevsner (1999): "Octagonal, with ogee tracery on the stem and roll-moulded panels to the bowl containing shields and flowers." Illustrated in context in Knott (2006). The angles of the underbowl appear to have human faces rather than angel heads; the lower base has graded moulings; raised on an octagonal plinth. Octagonal pyramidal wooden cover with crocketed sides/arrises.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.4289, 0.9022
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25′ 44.04″ N, 0° 54′ 7.92″ E
UTM: 31U 357373 5810813
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
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: 2009-09-04 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999