Warham St. Mary / Wareham St Mary
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
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Results: 5 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/warhammarymagdelene/warhammarymagdelene.htm] [accessed 12 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - north portal
Scene Description: late Norman? -- now blocked
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Warham St Mary's church Norman N door [7270] 1995-10-01.jpg] [accessed 12 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Decorated tower"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Warham St Mary's church from SE [7269] 1995-10-01.jpg] [accessed 12 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of font in context
![the ca.1800 'bird-bath' font by the tower arch [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1131218005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the ca.1800 'bird-bath' font by the tower arch [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/warhammarymagdelene/warhammarymagdelene.htm] [accessed 12 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/warhammarymagdelene/warhammarymagdelene.htm] [accessed 12 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01684WAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: 51 The Street, Warham, Norfolk NR23 1NH
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the NW area of Norfolk, just E of the B1105, a few kms inland from the North Norfolk Heritage Coast, about 90 km WNW of Norwich [Warham All Saints is just E of it]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Greehow
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The Domesday survey has seven entries for Warham [variant spellings] [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/warham-all-saints-and-st-mary/] [accessed 12 December 2013] none of which mention a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Here were 3 churches— All-Saints—St. Mary's— and St. Mary Magdalen", all three of them rectories, (St. Mary's and St. Mary Magdalen consolidated), and names "Hugh de Corpusti" as first recorded rector here, in 1278. Blomefield (ibid.) has a reference to an earlier date in relation to the conveyance of "the advowson of the church of St. Mary Magdalen in this town [...] In the 18th of King John", i.e., his last year, 1216. There is also a blocked north door that appears Norman in this church. The present font is listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period [NB: it is not clear whether or not Cox & Harvey's font may have been the octagonal -originally square- re-cut basin now kept at Warham All Saints]. Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note: "The font is a fine stone baluster of 1800-1". Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005) as a "bird-bath" font. [NB: is the old basin now at Wareham All Saints an earlier font from here?]
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 October 1995
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 358152 5867397
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.937441, 0.889261
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 56′ 14.79″ N, 0° 53′ 21.34″ E
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 261-266 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78540] [accessed 13 December 2013]
- 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.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 706