Little Langham / Lagaam / Langaham / Langham Parva

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18018LAN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [disappeared]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]

Historical Region: Hundred of Holt

Font Notes: Click to view

FOR ALL DETAILS OF THIS FONT SEE INDEX ENTRY FOR LANGHAM, NORFOLK -- There are two entries for Langham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0041/langham/] [accessed 24 January 2014], one of which includes two churches. The general entry for Langham in Blomefield (1805-1810) notes: "here were two churches, with 16 acres", and his entry for Langham Parva notes: "The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Mary". White's Directory of 1854 notes: "Langham [...] was formerly in two parishes, called Langham Magna, and Parva ; but the Church of the latter has long been dilapidated, and its rectory consolidated with Cockthorpe and Blakeney." In his entry for Langham's St. Mary and St. Andrew Church, Knott (2004) reports: "The font comes from the lost church of St Mary, Langham Parva. The two parishes were combined, hence the liturgically ignorant modern dedication of this building." [cf. Index entry for Langham, Norfolk]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 356889 5794678

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.283806, 0.901954

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 17′ 1.7″ N, 0° 54′ 7.03″ E

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a history of Norfolk, Fersfield, Norwich and Lynn: [Printed in the author's own press], 1739-1755, vol. 9: 410-411 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78581] [accessed 24 January 2014]
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 408 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78579] [accessed 24 January 2014]
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845, p. 779