Herringby / Haringebei / Haringebi / Haringbi / Harengby / Haringby / Haryngeby / Haryngeby / Heringbi / Heringebi / Heringeby / Heringby / Heryngby

INFORMATION

Font ID: 19234HER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1197?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Ethelbert [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Ethelbert [aka Æthelberht]
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Stokesby, 10 km W of Gt. Yarmouth, 25 E of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of East Flegg
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ce. 1197 church here?)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Herringby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4410/herringby/] [accessed 28 May 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In the 8th of Richard I [i.e., 1197] John Hautyn was lord, and gave the patronage of the church to the priory of Castleacre [...] The Church is dedicated to St Ethelbert, and was a rectory [...] and the prior of Castleacre had a portion [...] John Holt was rector, and succeeded by Thomas Lewgar in 1617, Thomas Clere, Esq. being patron, who held it with Stokesby, to which it is annexed, and it dilapidated, soon after the dissolution of the college". Chambers (1829), too, writes: "It was at one time distinguished for its college, or hospital, founded according to the will of Hugh Attefenn. [...] The church has been dilapidated ever since the dissolution of the college". Lewis (1848) reports it as "a rectory, united to that of Stokesby".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 406538 5832296

REFERENCES

  • A., M., "On the font in Dunsford Church", I, Devon and Cornwall Notes & Queries, 1901, pp. 120; vol. 11: 221-225 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78787] [accessed 28 May 2014]
  • Chambers, John, A General History of the County of Norfolk, intended to convey all the information of a Norfolk tour […], Norwich: J. Stacy, 1829, vol. 1: 647
  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1848-1849, p. 482-491 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51026] [accessed 28 May 2014]