Walcott nr. Walsham / Walceta / Walcot / Walcote / Walscota

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16

Scene Description: northeast side of the font

Image Source: digital photograph by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walcott/walcott.htm] [accessed 16 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "15c tower"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 September 1979 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walcot All Saints church from SE [6054] 1979-09-27.jpg] [accessed 16 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walcott/walcott.htm] [accessed 16 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: seen from the chancel -- the font at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walcott/walcott.htm] [accessed 16 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Scene Description: southeast side the font

Image Source: digital photograph by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: as seen from the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2005 by Simon Knott

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 01659WAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Walcott, Happisburgh, Norfolk NR12 0PE

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the B1159, 9 km E of North Walsham, 18 km SE of Cromer, on the coast

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Happing

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre of the aisle, opposite the S door

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only?] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, and to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for their 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, September 1979

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entris for this locality in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3631/walcott/] [accessed 16 January 2014], one of which includes a church in it, which in Blomefield (1805-1810) is noted as "endowed with 20 acres [...] The Church is a rectory dedicated to All-Saints, and in the reign of Edward I. valued at 20 marks, and the rector is then said to have most beautiful edifices, and many acres of land". The first recorded rector in Blomefield (ibid.) though, "In 1302, Hugh de Walcot, instituted, presented by Alexander de Walcote." The present font is described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of Early English font in Purbeck marble. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997), who point out "noticeably bashed about. Later columns support it." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005): "The font, as with most local churches, is a 13th century Purbeck marble affair, obviously from the earlier church." The font consists of an octagonal basin with slightly tapering sides decorated with pairs of pointed arches on each side, raised on a columnar base with a broad central shaft and eight slender colonnettes at the angles. on a plain octagonal lower base and a three-step plinth, also plain. The whole base appears of a later date. Flat octagonal wooden cover with metal ornamentation; modern. The basin is very eroded, as if it had been exposed to the elements, or buried, for a long time. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 11thC church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.831594, 1.503507

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 49′ 53.74″ N, 1° 30′ 12.62″ E

UTM: 31U 399183 5854586

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

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

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

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.

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

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