Crostwight / Crostweyt / Crostwit / Crosweyt

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

Scene Description: PHOTOS digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/crosswight/crosswight.htm] [accessed 24 April 2014] INCLUDES 14th-15thC mural paintings on the north wall: Passion and Resurrection cycle; Seven Sins; St. Christopher, etc. [cf. [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/crosswight/crosswight.htm] [accessed 24 April 2014] for details]

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/crosswight/crosswight.htm] [accessed 24 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Thatched chancel roof"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 23 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Crostwight All Saints church from SE [6989] 1993-05-23.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The upper part of the tower was taken down in 1910"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 23 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Crostwight All Saints church from SW [6988] 1993-05-23.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: notice the mural paintings, especially those on the left [north] wall, but some also on the chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/crosswight/crosswight.htm] [accessed 24 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end -- wall paintings remain in part on the west and north walls

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/crosswight/crosswight.htm] [accessed 24 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - north wall - painting

Scene Description: 14th-15thC mural paintings on the north wall: Passion and Resurrection cycle; Seven Sins; St. Christopher, etc. [cf. [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/crosswight/crosswight.htm] [accessed 24 April 2014] for details]

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/crosswight/crosswight.htm] [accessed 24 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/crosswight/crosswight.htm] [accessed 24 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 01687CRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: 9NP, Hall Rd, Crostwight, North Walsham NR28 9NN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1692 580250

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1159, in the municipality and 5 km E of North Walsham. inland from Walcott or Happisburgh, 25-30 km NE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Tunstede

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

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English [altered]

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 1993

Church Notes: a good part of the late-medieval paintings remain in this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Crostwight [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3329/crostwight/] [accessed 24 April 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1905-1810) writes: "The Church of Crostweyt is dedicated to All-Saints, and is a rectory; it appears by a fine levied in the 20th of Henry III [i.e., 1236] that the advowson was appendant to the manor of Walcote, and then belonged to Lecia de Eggefend, widow of William Rosceline [...] The church is a single pile covered with reed, and has a square tower, with 3 bells, and a chancel covered with reed. The present font here is listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a stone baptismal font of the Early English period. It is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. C13, octagonal, of Purbeck marble, with the familiar two shallow pointed arches on each side." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, "the subsidiary shafts and the base probably renewed". Described and illustrated in Knott (2005) who points out that the outer colonnettes of the base are a replacement; only the central shaft is original.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.813845, 1.461703

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 49.84″ N, 1° 27′ 42.13″ E

UTM: 31U 396324 5852672

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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: 2009-06-18 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