Hempnall No. 2 / Hamehala / Hemehala

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18400HEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: pre-1066?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Church / Chapel Name: Ancient parochial Chapel of St. Andrew [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: [cf. Index entry for Hempnall No. 1]
Historical Region: Hundred of Depwade
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Conquest church here)
Font Notes:
Blomefield (1805-1810) cites the Domesday survey (fol. 251) entry for "The Manor of Hemenhale [...] Belonged to Torn, a Dane at the Confessor's survey, had then three freemen, 41 bordars, (or copyholders,) and 54 villeins; it had one priest (or rector) and two churches, endowed with a carucate of land", and it went to Ralph Lord Bainard, a fellow invader of William, at the Conquest. Of the two churches reported in Domesday, the second church was "the ancient chapel of St. Andrew, which at the Conquest was parochial though dependent on the mother-church, is now used (as I am informed) for a repository for the stalls." [NB: we have no information on the font of this pre-Conquest church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 384128 5818022

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 5: 181-187 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78173] [accessed 1 April 2013]