South Wootton / South Wotton / Wdetuna
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view of font
Scene Description: the font rests directly on the tiled floor [cf. Cautley's photograph for the earlier plinth]
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Eller (1861)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southwooton/southwooton.htm] [accessed 26 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southwooton/southwooton.htm] [accessed 26 August 2009]
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view of font
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Image Source: Bdigital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: Bdigital image of a &W photograph in Cautley (1949: 130)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
animal - fabulous animal or monster - head - 4
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - motifs
Scene Description: each side of the basin has a rectangular box with a semi-circular appendage, cartouche-like, on its lower part
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI
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view of basin
Scene Description: showing two of the heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southwooton/southwooton.htm] [accessed 26 August 2009]
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view of basin
Scene Description: showing two of the heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southwooton/southwooton.htm] [accessed 26 August 2009]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southwooton/southwooton.htm] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "A good bit of rebuilding, including the tower"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 September 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/S Wootton St Mary's church from SW [7402] 1996-09-15.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southwooton/southwooton.htm] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southwooton/southwooton.htm] [accessed 10 December 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: very worn, on the bases of the outer colonnettes
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00299SOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-24
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 51 Church Lane, South Wootton, Norfolk PE30 3WT, United Kingdom
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A148, 3 km N of King's Lynn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Freebridge
Additional Comments: Limestone(?) bowl - square with a total of nine columns: one in the centre, one at each corner and one on each side between the corner columns. -- altered font? The font earlier on a plinth, later directly on the ground
Font Notes:
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There is a single entry for both North and South Wootton in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/north-and-south-wootton/] [accessed 10 December 2013], recorded as "Wdetuna", but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Mary [...] and is a rectory", and names "William Mundele" as first recorded rector here, in 1349, without any other mention of church or advowson here between 1086 and the installation of this rector. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the font is Norman." Illustrated in Eller (1861). Listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy square Norman font with figured heads. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Late Norman. Square, on nine supports. Monster faces at the corners." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). Square-basin mounted on one central and eight additional shafts, bearing fine, original Norman carving, especially the large animal heads at the four corners of the bowl; the motifs between the heads, cartouche-like, are original and uncommon; columns of the base have moulded bases; plain square lower base. Listed and illustrated in Cautley (1949). On-site notes: the basin well is lead lined and has a central drainage hole; the round plinth on which the font stood ca. 1861, and ca.1949 [cf. engraving in Eller and photograph in Cautley] is gone and the font now rests directly on the tiled floor of the nave, at the west end of the nave.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1996
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 326648 5850558
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.776977, 0.429909
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 46′ 37.12″ N, 0° 25′ 47.67″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Drainage Notes: lead-lined basin well
Rim Thickness: 9-24 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 54.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 27 cm*
Basin Total Height: 34 cm*
Height of Base: 30 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 64 cm* (includes lower base)
Square Base Dimensions: 67 x 68 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 74 x 74 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: Cautley's photograph of 1949 shows a flat wooden cover with metal handle and reinforcements; a similar one in Knott's 2005 photographs
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 196-201 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78525] [accessed 10 December 2013]
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 46, 144, 183, 191 and ill. on p. 192
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 20 and ill. on p. 130
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 209, 210
- Eller, George, Revd., Memorials, archaeological and ecclesiastical, of the West Winch manors, from the earliest ages to the present period [...], King's Lynn: Printed (for private circulation) by Thew & Son, publishers, 1861, ill. on p. 132
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 202
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- 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, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51429] [accessed 22 March 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 666