Knapton / Ranapatone / Ranapetone

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Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013

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view of font

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 28 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Knapton Ss Peter and Paul church font [3851] 1950-05-28.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Knapton Ss Peter and Paul church font [3851] 1950-05-28.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/knapton/knapton.htm] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

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

all around; shallow carving
Scene Description: all around; shallow carving
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 28 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Knapton Ss Peter and Paul church font [3851] 1950-05-28.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/knapton/knapton.htm] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast vview

N/A FONT B&W photograph taken 28 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Knapton Ss Peter and Paul church font [3851] 1950-05-28.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013] EXT SE digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/knapton/knapton.htm] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Scene Description: N/A FONT B&W photograph taken 28 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Knapton Ss Peter and Paul church font [3851] 1950-05-28.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013] EXT SE digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/knapton/knapton.htm] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 August 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Knapton Ss Peter and Paul church from SE [7058] 1993-08-18.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - ceiling

Photo caption "Nave roof covers a span of 30 feet 6 inches. Given by John Smithe in 1503. Arch-braced between wall posts, it has three tiers of angels"
Scene Description: Photo caption "Nave roof covers a span of 30 feet 6 inches. Given by John Smithe in 1503. Arch-braced between wall posts, it has three tiers of angels"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Knapton Ss Peter and Paul double hammerbeam [3850] 1950-05-28.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy

notice the version "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ" of the old Greek palindrome: "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ", on the sides of the canopy
Scene Description: notice the version "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ" of the old Greek palindrome: "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ", on the sides of the canopy
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 28 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Knapton Ss Peter and Paul church font [3851] 1950-05-28.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05428KNA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Pond Lane, Knapton, Norfolk NR28 0SB, UK
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNE of North Walsham, 35-40 km N of Norwich, on the B1145, just a few km shy of the coast at Mundesley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham
Font Notes:
The Domesday entry for "Ranapetone" mentions neither church nor cleric. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "About 1300, William de Huntingfeld was patron of this church, in right of his wife [...] The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul". Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 dates the font to the Norman period. Lingwood ([1908?]) reports "an ancient font, surmounted by a very curious canopy" in this church. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as an octagonal basin mounted on nine shafts, the whole raised on three plinths; the basin is ornamented with a low-relief blind arcade of pointed arches. A low-domed octagonal Jacobean-style lid of 1704 is raised on seven thin shafts resting on the basin surface; it is of the same general shape as the lid at Colebroke, but the finial at Knapton is a tall ball-and-spike instead of an angel. On this cover Bond (ibid.) reports the ubiquitous Greek inscription "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ", "cleanse your sin, not just your face" [James (1930) states that the palindrome is inscribed on the font]. Randall (1980) shows both the font and the canopy over it and gives the material of the font as Purbeck marble and its date as 13th century; the date for the cover is 1704. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Both font and cover are described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) with similar information. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005), who remarks on the cover: "one of the great Norfolk font covers, a beautiful white 18th century Palladian affair bearing the palindromic Greek sentence NIYON ANOMHMA MH MONAN OYIN - 'wash my sins not my face only'. A cover of this description was noted at Hingham in the 1840s, but did not survive the comprehensive Victorian restoration there. I wonder if this could be the same one?".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for the photograph of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this font and cover taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1950 and 1993

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 394068 5857387
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.855783, 1.426708
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 51′ 20.82″ N, 1° 25′ 36.15″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Greek
Inscription Location: on the font cover
Inscription Text: "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ"
Inscription Notes: "Clean your sin, not just your face" (Bond)
Inscription Source: Bond (1985 c1908: 113); Cox & Harvey (1907: 177)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1704
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes, pulley: "two round beams in the roof, like long rollers, which have been used for the ropes or chain to raise and lower the font cover" (Bond, ibid., p. 299)
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 132-135 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78424] [accessed 19 September 2013]
  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, 113, 206, 211, 225, 289, 291, 299, 303 and ill. on p. 313
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 177
  • James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 156
  • Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
  • Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 77
  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51084] [accessed 15 February 2007]
  • Lingwood, Lemmon, The Illustrated guide to Mundesley-on-Sea, containing brief sketches of many places of interest in the neighbourhood, as well as several excellent illustrations of Mundesley and district, London: Jarrold & Sons, [s.d.] [1908?], p. 24
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 582
  • Randall, Gerald, Church Furnishing & Decoration in England and Wales, London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1980, ill. 41 and caption