Hempton nr. Fakenham / Hamatuna

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2031717] [accessed 29 July 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the 19thC font at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2031751] [accessed 29 July 2013]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 19thC font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2031753] [accessed 29 July 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18568HEM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Saint Andrew [disappeared]

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: [the present church of the Holy Trinity is at: The Green, Hempton, Norfolk, NR21 7LG]

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 1 km S of Fakenham [the old church is said to have been located about 1 km NE of the present church]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundreds of Gallow and Brothercross

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Church Notes: he present church at Hempton dates from 1855

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) notes from among the holdings of this village at Domesday: "here was also a church endowed with one acre [...] A Church, dedicated to St. Andrew, was standing in the 12th of Henry VII. [i.e., 1497] and was a rectory appropriated to the priory, and granted with the manor; it was valued at 5 marks, and paid Peter-pence 5d. ob." [NB: the 'priory' referred to above was Hempton Priory, "first an hospital, and afterwards a priory, founded by Roger de St. Martin, in the reign of King Henry I. for black canons of the order of St. Austin, and dedicated to St. Stephen", according to Blomefield (ibid.). The priory appears to have ceased at the Dissolution, granted "by King Henry VIII. to Sir William Farmer, and the Lady Catherine his wife, and Thomas Farmer, his nephew". White's Directory of 1883 reported "no vestiges of the priory now remain".] White's Directory of 1845 notes: "The [church] (St. Andrew,) [...] was taken down several centuries ago, and the curacy annexed to Fakenham." [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.825632, 0.838484

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 49′ 32.27″ N, 0° 50′ 18.54″ E

UTM: 31U 354365 5855063

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845