Sutton nr. Norwich / Suttuna / Sutuna

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: between the columns of the base

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sutton/sutton.htm] [accessed 16 January 2014]

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sutton/sutton.htm] [accessed 16 January 2014]

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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

Scene Description: notice the considerable damage to the upper basin side, right side

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sutton/sutton.htm] [accessed 16 January 2014]

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view of church exterior - south porch

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 May 1955 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Sutton St Michael's church south porch [4308] 1955-05-14.jpg] [accessed 16 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sutton/sutton.htm] [accessed 16 January 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 May 1955 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Sutton St Michael's church from SW [4309] 1955-05-14.jpg] [accessed 16 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sutton/sutton.htm] [accessed 16 January 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sutton/sutton.htm] [accessed 16 January 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01264SUT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Church Road, Sutton, Norfolk, NR12 9SA

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the A149, near Stalham, 25 km NE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Happing

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

Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Decorated

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, 14 May 1955

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is one entry for this Sutton in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3823/sutton/] [accessed 16 January 2014], with three churches in it. The same entry, transcribed and translated in Blmefield (1805-1810) reports a single church here "endowed with 10 acres": "The Church is dedicated to St. Michael, consists of two isles, a square tower, with three bells, and a south porch, with a room over it, and is a rectory." The first recorded rector in Blomefield (ibid.): "John Hasting occurs rector, Ao. 10 Richard I" [i.e., 1199]. The present font here is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal and late C14. Eight attached shafts with little capitals and bases and with cusped ogee arches between; bowl with ogee tracery patterns." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2004). There is significant damage to one of the sides of the upper rim of the basin, probably where one of the metal staples was located. The font is raised on an octagonal plinth that appears to be of a later date. The wooden cover is round, flat and plain; appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 11th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.760494, 1.538416

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 37.78″ N, 1° 32′ 18.3″ E

UTM: 31U 401373 5846630

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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: 2009-07-07 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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