Great Walsingham No. 1 / Galsingaham / Old Walsingham / Walsigaham / Walsingham Magna

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 August 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatwalsingham/greatwalsingham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2012]

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view of basin and cover

Scene Description: the actual lid can be seen through the pillars of the canopy: quadrangular, with a curved handle

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 August 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatwalsingham/greatwalsingham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2012]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatwalsingham/greatwalsingham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2012]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The whole church is 14c, except for the 15c porch. It has lost its chancel"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 September 1959 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gt Walsingham St Peter's church from SE [4533] 1959-09-12.jpg] [accessed 13 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatwalsingham/greatwalsingham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and canopy to the right of the aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatwalsingham/greatwalsingham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2012]

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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatwalsingham/greatwalsingham.htm] [accessed 5 April 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04460WAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [aka All Saints and St. Peter]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [All Saints & St. Peter]

Church Location: Great Walsingham, Norfolk NR22 6DX

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located in the N of the county, just S of Binham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of North Greehow

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

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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his 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 September 1959

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Walsingham Magna in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9337/great-walsingham/] [accessed 13 December 2013] but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In the town of Old Walsingham, were two churches, All-Saints and St. Peter's. The Church of All-Saints was a rectory, [...] and was given, by deed sans date, to the church of St. Mary of Walsingham [Parva], and the canons there [...] In the 52d of Henry III [i.e., 1268] Richard de Vilechen conveyed by fine a moiety of the church of All-Saints, to Alan the prior of Walsingham" [NB: this priory dated originally to 1061 but thrived after the Conquest]. The earliest date related to the Church of St. Peter noted in Blomefield (ibid.) appears to be the institution of "Thomas de Leche" as its first recorded rector, in 1237. At the conveyance of the Church of All Saints to Walsingham priory [cf. supra] the church became a vicarage, and Blomefield (ibid.) reports "Philip de Clopton" as its first recorded vicar, in 1286, but, later, around 1360 "the vicarage was also united to the appropriated rectory, and became a curacy." The present font here is illustrated in Jenkins (1999): octagonal mounted font with tall 17th century (?) canopy. The basin sides are ornamented with blind trefoil arches, two on each side. The canopy is brightly painted in gold, red and black, and raised on eight slender colonnettes supporting round arches; the upper volume of the canopy is a pointed dome with eight nerves, coloured in stripes of gold, blue and black, like the lower colonnettes; the finial is a dull point, although it looks as if something were missing from it. The font appears to match the style and date of the church itself, wich Jenkins (ibid.) dates to the 1320s. Pevsner & Wilson (1997), however, date the font to the 15th century. Both font and cover are illustrated in Knott (2007).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.900349, 0.87995

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 54′ 1.25″ N, 0° 52′ 47.82″ E

UTM: 31U 357404 5863290

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: The lid itself is flat and plain, but the canopy above the font is interesting [cf. FontNotes for details]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-23 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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