Croxton All Saints No. 3 / Crokestun / Crokestuna

INFORMATION

FontID: 00742CRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: The Street, Croxton, Norfolk IP24 1LL, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
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]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1638?
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century
Font Notes:
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.445309, 0.755973
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 43.11″ N, 0° 45′ 21.5″ E
UTM: 31U 347490 5812937

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: type unknown

REFERENCES

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