Keningham / Kenincham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18393KEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1300?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church [abandoned ca. 1558 (?)]
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Keningham was a hamlet of Mulbarton, to the SE, 11 km SSW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Humble-Yard
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original church here)
Font Notes:
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church was demolished totally long before the Reformation, and the churchyard became glebe to Mulbarton, and hath been since exchanged, and is now owned by Mr. Turner of Kenningham; it stood south-east of Mulbarton-green about half a mile [...] it was perpetually united to Mulbarton, with which it hath remained ever since, the parish being totally in Mulbarton, there being not above two or three houses in the bounds of the the old parish of Kenningham." Blomefield (ibid.) and names "Roger Baste of Hasketone" as the first recorded rector here, in 1309, Chambers (1829) notes: "Keningham, in the time of queen Elizabeth [i.e., 1558-1603], was sold by Thomas duke of Norfolk, to sir Thomas Gresham, and then was joined to Mulberton". Kelly's Directory of 1883 informs: "K[eningham] has been annexed to Mulbarton since 1452: the church has long since gone to decay."

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 5: 74-75 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78157] [accessed 20 March 2013]
  • Chambers, John, A General History of the County of Norfolk, intended to convey all the information of a Norfolk tour […], Norwich: J. Stacy, 1829, p. 810
  • Kelly, Kelly's Directory for Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1883, p. 398