Westwick / Westuuic / Westvvic

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angel - cherub - head - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/855681] [accessed 6 May 2014]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westwick/westwick.htm] [accessed 6 May 2014]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westwick/westwick.htm] [accessed 6 May 2014]

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design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: a variety of: square flower, rose, etc. [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/855681] [accessed 6 May 2014]

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design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: a variety of, like the ones on the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/855681] [accessed 6 May 2014]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westwick/westwick.htm] [accessed 6 May 2014]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Tall Perpendicular west tower. In 1473, 9 pounds was left towards its building"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 July 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Westwick St Botolph's church from NW [6875] 1992-07-17.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2014]

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view of church exterior - tower - detail

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Base of west and south sides. Cusped lozenges and shields"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 July 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Westwick St Botolph's church tower carvings [6876] 1992-07-17.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - detail

Scene Description: west view of the north side of the beautifully painted dado

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westwick/westwick.htm] [accessed 6 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westwick/westwick.htm] [accessed 6 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: viewed through the chancel screen

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westwick/westwick.htm] [accessed 6 May 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westwick/westwick.htm] [accessed 6 May 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01098WES

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph

Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]

Church Location: Westwick, Norfolk, NR10 5BW

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1150, S of North Walsham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Tunstede

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

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in July 1992

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Westwick [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2825/westwick/] [accessed 6 May 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Botolph. In the 19th of Henry III. Sir Peter de Hobois, steward of the abbey of Holm, released all his right in the town and advowson to the abbot. [...] Ralph, the abbot of Holm, released all his right therein in the first of Richard I. by fine, to Roger Bigot, then Earl. [...] The church has a nave and 2 isles covered with lead, the chancel with tile; in the tower 2 bells." We have, therefore, documented evidence of the church here "in the first of Richard I", id est, 1189. The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, early C16, with four lions seated on the base and eight flowers and fleurons against the bowl. Traces of the original polychromy show through a later red colourwash." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "the 15th century font, which is magnificent in a part of Norfolk where they tend to be older and rather more humble". The underbowl has angel heads at the upper volume, large flowers on the lower one; the base has buttresses between the lions, and the lower base is moulded. Raised on an octagonal plinth.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.782692, 1.388176

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 46′ 57.69″ N, 1° 23′ 17.44″ E

UTM: 31U 391291 5849315

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-09 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997