Little Moulton / Moulton Omnium Sanctorum / Moulton Parva / Muletuna

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18401MOU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [demolished ca. 1570-1579]

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints

Church Address: Off Firth Way, Little Moulton, NR15 2AT

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

Directions to Site: Located near Great Moulton/Moulton St. Michael, off Firth Way, Little Moulton

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]

Historical Region: Hundred of Depwade

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Conquest-time church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

Blomfield's (1805-1810) entry for Moulton Magna [aka Moulton St. Michael] notes: "at the time of the Conquest [...] Little Moulton [...] had then a church and 15 acres of glebe", which appears in Domesady as "In Muletuna (sc. Parva) [...] i. ecclesia de xv. acr. silva". Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The church was dedicated to all the Saints, and when Norwich Domesday was wrote, the rector had no house but 13 acres of glebe [...] The church was in use till 1570, and then was totally demolished; the site of it is still called All-Saints churchyard." The Liber ecclesiasticus (1835) lists "Moulton, Little. All Saints (no church)". Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of 1870-1872 entry for Little Moulton reads: "The church was taken down in 1579." The Church of England, Diocese of Norwich web site [www.norwich.anglican.org/church?parish_id=338] [accessed 3 April 2013] lists it as "All Saints, Little Moulton (ruin)".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 375888 5814646

REFERENCES

Liber ecclesiasticus: an authentic statement of the revenues of the Established Church, compiled from the Report of Commissioners appointed "To inquire into the revenuesand patronage of the Established Church in England and Wales"; Presented to Parl[...], London: Published by Hamilton Adams, and Co., 1835, p. 141
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 5: 187-204 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78174] [accessed 1 April 2013]
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 5: 208-210 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78176] [accessed 1 April 2013]
Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, [cited in www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20987 [accessed 3 April 2013]]