West Runton / Rugutune / Runton / Runetuna / Runetune
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view of font
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westrunton/westrunton.htm] [accessed 24 September 2013]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westrunton/westrunton.htm] [accessed 24 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westrunton/westrunton.htm] [accessed 24 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westrunton/westrunton.htm] [accessed 24 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/W Runton Holy Trinity church from SE [6985] 1993-05-22.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2013]
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westrunton/westrunton.htm] [accessed 24 September 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is located at the end of the centre aisle, by the west doorway
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Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westrunton/westrunton.htm] [accessed 24 September 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westrunton/westrunton.htm] [accessed 24 September 2013]
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view of font cover
Scene Description: 19th-century?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westrunton/westrunton.htm] [accessed 24 September 2013]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westrunton/westrunton.htm] [accessed 24 September 2013]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Scene Description: much simpler than the one above
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/westrunton/westrunton.htm] [accessed 24 September 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01704RUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Cromer Road, West Runton, Norfolk, NR27 9QT
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km from Cromer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC(?) church here)
Font Notes:
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Of the three entries for this locality in the Domesday survey, and transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810), only one, "Runetune", is listed with a church in it, "a church with 6 acres". This holding belonged to Turkel until the Conquest, but passed hence under the lordship of William de Escohies [aka Escois]. It is quite likely that the church itself was pre-Conquest. Blomefield (ibid.) notes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated, as said, to the Trinity. Ancient valor 26 marks. Peter-pence 6d. In the reign of King Edward the rector had a manse with 22 acres of land; and the prior of Bromholm a portion of tithe valued at 2 marks. [...] The church has a nave and 2 isles, covered with lead, and a chancel tiled." The present font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a stone baptismal font of the Decorated period [NB: Cox & Harvey give the location simply as 'Runton']. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, with many small ogee-headed panels, perhaps Dec[orated]." Illustrated in Knott (2006). The font has traceried pattern on the basin sides, while the moulded capitals of the colonnettes of the base serve as ornamentation of the underbowl; between the colonnettes of the base are plain trefoil arches; raised on an octagonal lower base and a plinth of the same shape. The wooden cover has a flat octagonal platform with eight vertical scroll ribs converging at an acorn and cross finial; in Jacobean style, but probably Victorian; brightly painted and gilded.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 381867 5866915
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.938852, 1.242134
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 56′ 19.87″ N, 1° 14′ 31.68″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 159-161 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78432] [accessed 24 September 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. 718