Walpole St. Peter

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - cusped arches - 8

Scene Description: The arch-heads of the arcade that decorates the stem are on the underbowl chamber.

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestpeter

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design element - architectural - arcade - cusped arches - 8

Scene Description: cusped and foliated, all that remains of the ornamentation that framed the original Seven-Sacrament scenes [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestpeter

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design element - motifs - floral - rose

Scene Description: in between portions of the inscription

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestpeter

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inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestpeter

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view of church exterior - south porch

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Perpendicular south porch"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 4 June 1959 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walpole St Peter's church tower and S porch [4496] 1959-06-04.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Sanctus bell turret, pinnacles to rood stairs on both sides, and clerestory."

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 9 August 1979 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walpole St Peter's church from SE [6042] 1979-08-09.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Late Decorated"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 20 July 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walpole St Peter's church tower [7374] 1996-07-20.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Nave roof has arch-braced tiebeams with intermediate arch-braced principals"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 14 April 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walpole St Peter's church interior view W [6077] 1980-04-14.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Church known as the Queen of the Marshlands"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 14 April 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walpole St Peter's church interior view E [6072] 1980-04-14.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - south aisle - looking east

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 14 April 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walpole St Peter's church S aisle benches [6073] 1980-04-14.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestpeter

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestpeter

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Early 16c font. Cover dates from beginning of 17c"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 14 April 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walpole St Peter's church font and cover [6079] 1980-04-14.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font cover

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestpeter

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the early-17th century cover

Image Source: digital image of a detail of a B&W photograph taken 14 April 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walpole St Peter's church font and cover [6079] 1980-04-14.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font cover - detail

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestpeter

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00767WAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: School Ln, Walpole, Norfolk PE14 7NS, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located in the westernmost area of the county, W of King's Lynn, right at the boundary with Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Freebridge

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

Date: 1532? / 1537?

Century and Period: 16th century, Late Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for the photographs of church, font and cover; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1959, 1979 and 1996

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a single entry for "Walpola" in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/walpole-st-andrew-and-st-peter/] [accessed 29 November 2013], and it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes that the patronage of the church of St. Peter was in the hands of the Bishop of Ely "In the 3d of Edward I" [i.e., 1275], and adds: "John de Langton was rector in the reign, of King Edward I"; on the church itself, he writes: "St. Peter's Church is one of the most beautiful parish churches in England, built of free-stone, consisting of a nave, 2 isles, and a chancel, all covered with lead; at the west end stands a noble, stately tower of stone, embattled. [...] On the font is this date, Ano. [..] Dni. [..] m. [..] c. c. c. c. c. === and [..] thanks". A mention of "a good font" and a "gorgeous font-cover of wood" appears in Cotman (1838). In Cautley (1949). Nichols (1994) is inclined to accept this font as part of the Seven-sacrament group even if the basin panels are "completely disfigured though shadows remain." Nichols (ibid.) refers to both Fryer and Cautley as having identified it as such, but she also indicates that neither Cox & Harvey nor Mortlock & Roberts mentioned it as part of the group. Bond (1908) is more interested in the post-Reformation font cover which he describes as being of the "rim buffet" type attached to the rim. The basin has the famous English inscription "Thynk and thank" repeated round the bowl (ibid.) Jenkins (1999) writes of the font cover: "Its fretwork rises like some exotic Ottoman smoking machine." It consists of a lower volume, octagonal with vertical sides, ending up on a crown-like rim; there are then four truncated-pyramid volumes, in decreasing side to form the "spire", and the large finial ball at the very top. As Jenkins puts it (ibid.), the fretwork does, indeed, emulate quasi-Arabesque levels! Hutton (1957) describes the font cover as "a (rare) early 17C unfolding carved wood cover." Cox & Harvey (1907) give the text of both inscriptions, the one at the base giving the date, 1532, and the name of the donor, "Whetorn Johannes sometime parson here". Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "[…] Inscription with the name of the parson, John Whetholme, and the date 1532 on the base. Font cover. Splendid Jacobean piece with an octagonal spire. The octagonal walls below open to give access to the font. Decoration with tapering facing pilasters in pairs, the usual blank arches and openwork arabesques. The font and cover are illustrated in Knott (2005), who reads the date as '1537'.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.728709, 0.222832

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 43′ 43.35″ N, 0° 13′ 22.19″ E

UTM: 31U 312477 5845710

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, oolite (Barnack stone, Fryer, 1934, 101)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English and numbers

Inscription Notes: Cox & Harvey note both inscriptions; Bond mentions only the inscription on the basin and the date.

Inscription Location: 1. Round the basin -- 2. On the base

Inscription Text: 1. "Thynk and Thank" [repeated] 2. "Remember Wethorn Johannes sometime parson here, 1532" [or 1537?]

Inscription Source: cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century (early?) / Jacobean / Post-Reformation

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no [rim-buffet type of font]

Notes: [cf. FontNotes for details]

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

Cotman, John Sell, Specimens of Architectural Remains in Various Counties in England, but principally in Norfolk, London: H.G. Bohn, 1838

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

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-04-14 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994

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