Hempstead All Saints / Hempstead-by-Holt / Hempstede / Henepsteda
Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/317422] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Largely rebuilt in brick 1744. The apse is 1925"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hempstead All Saints church from SE [6978] 1993-05-22.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The two-light window in the west wall must have belonged to an Early English aisle later removed"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hempstead All Saints church from SW [6979] 1993-05-22.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/317421] [accessed 23 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/317423] [accessed 23 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern font at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/317424] [accessed 23 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 19017HEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Chapel Lane, Hempstead, Norfolk NR25 6AH
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 km SE of Holt, 18 km SW of Cromer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Holt
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1993
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Hempstead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG1037/hempstead/] [accessed 23 January 2014], one of which lists a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church was anciently a rectory [...] but being appropriated to the priory of Norwich, by Walter Bishop of Norwich, in 1249, a vicarage was settled, taxed at 4 marks, and the patronage of it in the priory [...] In 1301, Ralph de Birston instituted vicar, presented by the prior and convent of Norwich." The present font in this church is modern, consisting of an octagonal basin with decorated sides and underbowl, raised on a pedestal base and lower base of the sme shape, and a small octagonal plinth, also octagonal. The wooden cover, eight arched ribs on a flat octagonal platform, is also modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.890068, 1.126378
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 24.25″ N, 1° 7′ 34.96″ E
UTM: 31U 373947 5861685
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810