Calthorpe / Calatorp / Calethorp / Caletorp / Calthorp

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angel - cherub - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: on the sides of the stem, between the sejant lions

Image Source: digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - 8

Image Source: digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: thick moulding all around the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: view of the east side of the basin; three pairs of motifs, some trefoiled, some cinquefoiled

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: view of the west side of the basin; the tracery motifs on these sides are different from the ones on the east sides

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Early English chancel but with east window of 1822"

Image Source: SE B&W photograph taken 20 September 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Calthorpe St Margaret's church from SE [6918] 1992-09-20.jpg] [accessed 24 June 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end of the nave, just east of the tower arch

Image Source: digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the modern font cover: painted open-work

Image Source: digital photograph September 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/calthorpe/calthorpe.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01697CAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Our Lady with St. Margaret [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin? with St. Margaret

Church Location: The Street, Calthorpe, Norfolk, NR11 7QR, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A140, 8 km NNW of Aylsham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham [in Domesday]

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1992

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries in the Domesday survey for Calthorpe [variant spellings] [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG1831/calthorpe/] [accessed 18 February 2024], one of which, in the lordship of the abbey of St Benet of Holme in both 1066 and 1086, mentions a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Calthorp [...] being wrote Calethorp in the Book of Doomsday; the chief lordship belonged to Edric, a Dane, who gave it to the abbey of St. Bennet of Holm, [...] and confirmed by King Edward the Confessor. At the survey [i.e., 1086] the abbot had [...] a church without any land or glebe [...] The Church of Calthorp is dedicated to the Virgin or St. Margaret, and consists of a nave, or body, with a south porch covered with lead, and a chancel with tiles, also a square with 3 bells." The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal. At the corners of the stem four lions; against the underside of the bowl demi-figures of angels; against the bowl tracery." Knott (2005) described it as a "deliciously green font, with a towering 20th century font cover, typical of the style in red and green". The Historic Churches Preservation Trust notes: "Font 15th century with amiable lions at its base [...] Ancient pews restored 1938 when painted cover was made for font" [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 13 September 2005, www.historicchurches.org.uk]. The web site of the Church of England, 'A Church Near You' [http://achurchnearyou.com] notes that the "decorative font cover originates from Buxton church". [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.839696, 1.237411

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 50′ 22.91″ N, 1° 14′ 14.68″ E

UTM: 31U 381279 5855894

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1938 [cf. FontNotes]

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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: 2013-06-03 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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

Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846