Stockton nr. Norwich / Stoutuna

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2014187] [accessed 12 September 2013]

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

Scene Description: a pair of, on alternate sides [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2014187] [accessed 12 September 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: a cluster of mouldings at the centre ring position on the stem

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2014186] [accessed 12 September 2013]

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view of basin - west side

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 5 June 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stockton St Michael's church font west side [5557] 1976-06-05.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 5 June 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stockton St Michael's church from SE [5558] 1976-06-05.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2014172] [accessed 12 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - ceiling

Scene Description: looking east towards the altar

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 5 June 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stockton St Michael's church roof east [5556] 1976-06-05.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2014178] [accessed 12 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2014183] [accessed 12 September 2013]

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view of font and cover - southeast side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 5 June 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stockton St Michael's church font from SE [5555] 1976-06-05.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2014186] [accessed 12 September 2013]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: 17th-century? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 July 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2014186] [accessed 12 September 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05631STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: Church Road, Stockton NR34 0HJ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 20 km ESE of Norwich down the A146

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Clavering

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

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathen Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1976

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Domesday entry for "Stoutuna", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810) reports "there was a church endowed with 65 acres"; Blomedfield (ibid.) adds: "The Church is a rectory. In the reign of Edward I. Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk, and Earl-Marshal, as capital lord, was patron, and it was then valued at 12 marks; the rector had a manse with 30 acres of land; paid Peter-pence, 12d. Carvage, 6d. q. and it is dedicated to St. Michael." Bond (1908) writes: "In 1631 at Stockton, Norfolk, 13s. 4d. was paid 'for the Cover of the funte' and 4s. 0d. 'for the painting of the funte'". The font and the cover mentioned in that reference are noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Original C14. A heavy piece with the four signs of the Evangelists in figures nearly in the round.- Font cover. Jacobean, with crocketed edges." The four symbols of the Evangelists protrude significantly from the sides of the basin, an uncommon design that appears in a few Norfolk fonts of this period; between these are pairs of trefoiled arches or windows; the single support, octagonal and moulded, does not seem right for such a massive basin. Raised on a two-step quadrangular plinth that appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.492528, 1.515223

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 29′ 33.1″ N, 1° 30′ 54.8″ E

UTM: 31U 399195 5816857

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: a font cover is recorded in 1631 [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999