South Wootton / South Wotton / Wdetuna

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - head - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: very worn, on the bases of the outer colonnettes

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: showing two of the heads

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 basin

Scene Description: showing two of the heads

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 church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "A good bit of rebuilding, including the tower"

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]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southwooton/southwooton.htm] [accessed 10 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southwooton/southwooton.htm] [accessed 10 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southwooton/southwooton.htm] [accessed 10 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: Bdigital image of a &W photograph in Cautley (1949: 130)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

view of font

Image Source: Bdigital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: engraving in Eller (1861)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Scene Description: the font rests directly on the tiled floor [cf. Cautley's photograph for the earlier plinth]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI

view of font and cover

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southwooton/southwooton.htm] [accessed 26 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 00299SOU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 51 Church Lane, South Wootton, Norfolk PE30 3WT, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A148, 3 km N of King's Lynn

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Freebridge

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.776977, 0.429909

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 46′ 37.12″ N, 0° 25′ 47.67″ E

UTM: 31U 326648 5850558

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

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

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

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

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-26 00:00:00. 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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999