Tatterford / Taterford / Taterford
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Scene Description: the modern font in the 19thC church
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1938728] [accessed 1 August 2013]
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: the 19thC church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1938719] [accessed 1 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18571TAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret [old church]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Notes: the present Victorian church replaced the old Norman church in 1863
Church Address: The Street [Tatterford Dr.], Tatterford, Norfolk, NR21 7AZ
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km SW of Fakenham, 48 km NW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundreds of Gallow and Brothercross
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Taterforda" in Blomefield (1805-1810) shows no mention of church or cleric in this village at the time, but Blomefild refers indirectly to the church there : "In the 9th of King John [i.e., 1208]. Henry de Hauvill was lord, (of which family see in Dunton,) who granted to Pagan de Taterford his right of presentation to this church"; he later mentions the church explicitely without description: "The Church is dedicated to St. Margaret, and is a rectory", and names "Ralph Howe, as first recorded rector, in 1314, presented by Richard de Boyland and his wife Maud, who were the patrons. The last recorded rector is John Wright, who took over in 1758. White's Gazetteer of 1845 reported the church here as "a small antique fabric", whereas the 1885 edition of the same gazetteer read: "The CHURCH (St. Margaret) was entirely rebuilt in 1862, and is a neat Early English edifice, comprising only a nave and chancel; but a spire will be erected near the north-west angle as soon as the necessary funds can be procured", without mentioning the fate of the old Norman church it replaced. [NB: at present we have no information on the baptismal font of the old Norman church here, nor have we been able to ascertain whether there remains anything standing of the old church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 349611 5854582
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.820008, 768203
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 49′ 12.03″ N, 0° 46′ 5.53″ E
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 7: 190-192 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78327] [accessed 1 August 2013]
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 7: 190-192 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78327] [accessed 1 August 2013]
- Lynam, C., "A Brighton Congress note relative to the churches of Worth, Sompting, and Bosham", XLII, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1886, pp. 304-305; [cited in www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/t/tatterford/white1845.shtml] and in www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/t/tatterford/white1883.shtml [accessed 1 August 2013]