Croxton All Saints No. 3 / Crokestun / Crokestuna

INFORMATION

Font ID: 00742CRO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: 1638?

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints

Church Address: The Street, Croxton, Norfolk IP24 1LL, United Kingdom

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A11, E of te A34, 3 km N of Thetford, about halfway between Cambridge (SW) and Norwich (NE)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norfolk

Historical Region: Hundred of Grimeshoe [aka Grimeshou]

Additional Comments: lost or missing font: only the basin remains

Font Notes: Click to view

Tyrrell-Green (1928) mentions a basin from an old font surviving in this church; he describes the font in use as one of the type that appear in the wake of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren, neo-Classical in style, shallow basins on baluster-type stems. "resembling garden sundials or flower-bases rather than vessels for the administration of Baptism". Pevsner & Wilson (1999), however, mention a second font, but it does not match the above description: "a modest wooden C18 baluster, rather rare."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 347490 5812937

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.445309, 0.755973

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 26′ 43.11″ N, 0° 45′ 21.5″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: type unknown

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 277
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 40, 45