Mautby / Maltby / Maltebei / Malteby / Mauteby / Mawtby

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - cinquefoiled arches - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: on the angles of the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8

Scene Description: on the lower end of the panels

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - blind - 4

Scene Description: on every other panel of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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design element - motifs - crocket

Scene Description: all along the ribs of the octagonal lid

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 4

Scene Description: on every other panel of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The Norman round tower has several courses of gingerbread stone around the lower part" [NB: gingerbread stone is carrstone, aka carstone, a sedimentary sandstone conglomerate]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 October 1951 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Mautby Ss Peter and Paul church tower [4055] 1951-10-06.jpg] [accessed 28 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mautby/mautby.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, but the tower arch

Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mautby/mautby.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mautby/mautby.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01702MAU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Runham Road, Mautby, Norfolk NR29 3EL

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A1064, just W of Caister-on-Sea, 1-2 km SE of Filby, 8 km NW of Gt. Yarmouth

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of East Flegg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1300-1375?

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, and to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for their photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1951

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Mautby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4812/mautby/] [accessed 28 May 2014], on eof which reports a church and churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church consists of a nave and a chancel covered with reed, and has a tower, the lower part round, the upper octangular, with one bell. [...] The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, [...] the prior of Merton in Surrey had a portion of tithe", and the earliest date reference to this church is 1307, the institution of "Thomas de Hykelyngge" as rector. The church, however, goes back to Norman times, as the base of the tower indicates. The present font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) as Perpendicular, "with four shields and four quatrefoils". Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin of vertical sides decorated with deeply-cut blank quatrefoil windows and blank shields in quatrefoil windows in alternate panels; graded underbowl chamfer; raised on an octagonal pedestal, the sides of which are deeply cut between buttressed angles and decorated with a blind arcade of cinquefoil arches, while the lower end has tiny blank quatrefoil windows; the plain lower base is narrow and octagonal. Font dated in the local parish information to between 1300 and 1375. Raised on an octagonal plinth. The old wooden cover, perhaps of the 17th or 18th century, has the shape of an octagonal pyramid with slightly concave sides, the ribs at the angles crocketed all the way to the top.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.652287, 1.665728

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 8.23″ N, 1° 39′ 56.62″ E

UTM: 31U 409741 5834427

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-18th century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

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: 2009-06-25 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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