Drayton nr. Norwich / Draiton / Draituna

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: capitals and bases of the corner colonnettes

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 April 1939 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/D/Drayton St Margaret's font west side [2953] 1939-04-10.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 20 March 1932 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/D/Drayton St Margaret's church from SW [B211] 1932-03-20.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2014]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "North aisle added 1908"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 20 March 1932 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/D/Drayton St Margaret's church and pond [B213] 1932-03-20.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Chancel rebuilt 1866."

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 April 1939 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/D/Drayton St Margaret's interior view east [2952] 1939-04-10.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the far end, by the tower arch -- Photo caption: "North aisle added 1908"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 April 1939 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/D/Drayton St Margaret's interior view west [2955] 1939-04-10.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font

Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2055019] [accessed 10 April 2014]

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view of font and cover - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2055045] [accessed 10 April 2014]

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Standing on Norman shafts"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 April 1939 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/D/Drayton St Margaret's font west side [2953] 1939-04-10.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

FontID: 01673DRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Pond Lane, Drayton, Norfolk NR8 6EF

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A1067, about 10 km NW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Taverham

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

Century and Period: 12th century [columns only?] [composite font], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1932 and 1939

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Drayton [variant spelling] in the Domeday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG1813/drayton/\ [accessed 10 April 2014] and it reports a church and church lands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Margaret, and a single pile, covered with lead, a chancel covered with tile; at the west end a square tower with 3 bells." The present font is described and illustrated with an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812) as a smal font of the Norman period [NB: Repton uses English monarchy chronology and gives the time period between the Conquest and the reign of Henry II]; Basire's engraving shows a font that appears monolithic, consisting of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, raised on a broad and plain square shaft with decorated angle colonnetes attached, and a plain square lower base; one of the upper angles of the basin appears damaged. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal, on two halved Norman colonnettes and a centre support beneath a plain bowl." The plain octagonal basin is damaged and appears to have been re-tooled; the halved colonnettes are reinforced with modern halfs behind, and the central shaft appears moder as well; quadrangular lower base (two steps, or base and plinth). The wooden cover is octagonal and flat but has a slight overlap; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.677905, 1.224241

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 40.46″ N, 1° 13′ 27.27″ E

UTM: 31U 379948 5837921

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,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Études sur les fonts baptismaux de Saint-Barthélemy à Liège, Liège: Éditions du Céfal, 2006

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: 2009-06-19 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Repton, John Adey, "Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.V.P., read 12th March, 1807", XVI, Archaeologia, 1812, pp. 335-337 and pl. XXXVII-XLV; r["References"]