Frettenham / Fretham / Fretenham
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1995867] [accessed 10 April 2014]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/757489] [accessed 10 April 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Decorated but chancel added in 1869 by Phipson"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 May 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/F/Frettenham St Swithin's church south side [6776] 1992-05-15.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Tower parapet dated 1672"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 May 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/F/Frettenham St Swithin's church tower [6775] 1992-05-15.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1995832] [accessed 10 April 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01674FRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Transitional / Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Swithin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Swithun [aka Swithin]
Church Address: Church Lane, Frettenham, Norfolk NR12 7NW
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Taverham
Additional Comments: altered font? (stem and lower base modern)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Frettenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2418/frettenham/] [accessed 10 April 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. There is only a tangential mention of the church here in the Frettenham entry in Blomefield (1805-1810), and it is in relation to a fine for the conveyance of the advowson of the church in 1268, though the church must have existed prior to that date, perhaps closer to the end of the century, which is probably the date of the font. Blomefield's entry (ibid.) for 'Maideston', however, has: "The Church of Fretenham is a rectory, dedicated to St. Swithin" [NB: the hamlet of Maidestone, a 'berwit' of Frettenham, rates an entry in the Domesdat survey as 'Maidestuna', but there is no indication there or in Bloemfield (ibid.) to a church or cleric in it]. The present font is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "supports renewed". Pevsner & Wilson (1997), however: "Octagonal, C13, of Purbeck marble, with the usual two shallow arches on each side. Base and stem not original." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2009). The wooden font cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 386661 5842233
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.718103, 1.321995
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 43′ 5.17″ N, 1° 19′ 19.18″ E
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, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal flat and plain, with metal decoration and ring handle; Victorian?
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 416-418 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78706] [accessed 10 April 2014]
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 418-420 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78707] [accessed 10 April 2014]
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 210
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 76
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 474