Heydon nr. Aylshan / Stinetuna / Stinton
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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph "Heydon Ss Peter and Paul church interior E [3943] 1950-07-27 With 13c font." taken by George Plunkett in 1950 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/hac.htm] [accessed 22 May 2013]
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Scene Description: at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph June 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/heydon/heydon.htm] [accessed 22 May 2013]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tom Stevenson, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph from Tom Stevenson [www.genealogysource.com]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2000
Image Source: B&W photograph from Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.com]
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Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - double
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph June 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/heydon/heydon.htm] [accessed 22 May 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font in the foreground (west end)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph "Heydon Ss Peter and Paul church interior E [3943] 1950-07-27 With 13c font." taken by George Plunkett in 1950 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/hac.htm] [accessed 22 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05837HEY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1300?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, opposite the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: The Street, Heydon, Norfolk, NR11 6AD
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the B1149, about 7 km W of Aylsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham [formerly in the Hundred of Eynford/Eynsford]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The town of Heydon is not known by that name in Domesday Book, but was then in Eynsford hundred, and was called Stinetuna, [...] or Stinton", and notes that "the church, which had 14 acres of glebe" is reported in the Domesday survey, a church which Blomefield (ibid.) describes as being "dedicated to St. Peter and Paul, and is a rectory not capable of augmentation [...] a good regular building, having a nave, 2 isles and chancel, covered with lead; the north vestry is in decay; there is a handsome square tower and three bells, and north and south porches, tiled." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Roger de Brewse, subdeacon", first recorded rector here, in 1310. Blomefield's entry for Stinton, in the hundred of Eynford, mentions the Domesday entry with the "Stinetuna" church in it. The font here is illustrated with an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812), who writes that this font was "probably executed from about the reign of King John [i.e., 1199+] or Henry the Third" [i.e., 1216+]. Paley (1844) describes as a Norman font in which "the under side of the bowl is bevilled away or rounded off to meet the stem [...] and this hemispherical form is extremely common in Norman fonts as at Cuxwold, Lincolnshire; Clipsham, Rutland; Heydon, Norfolk; Laxton, Northamptonshire; Plymstock, Devonshire." [NB: did Paley really see this font and let it pass as Norman?]. Thomas (1846) dates it to a very early period: "Font. Excellent preservation, but painted; disused; character, Norman." Thomas (ibid.) adds two footnotes that are quotations from Poole (1) and Paley (2): 1)"Some of these round tub- shaped fonts may be of Saxon, many of them are certainly of Norman date." Poole." 2) "The hemispherical form is extremely common in Norman fonts, as at Heydon, Norfolk," &c Paley". Described in Betjeman (1958) as "a most exceptional 'tub' font". Pevsner & Wilson (1997) give a 13th-century date for this font. Baptismal font consisting of a cauldron-shaped basin decorated only with a double roll-moulding at the upper rim; the base is circular and has several roll mouldings of different thickness; all raised on an octagonal plinth. The general shape of the basin resembles cauldron bowls such as those at Little Billing (Nhants.) and Wirksworth (Derbs.) Noted and illustrated in Knott (2004) with date in the 18th century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of Licoln, for the old image of this font; to Tom Stevenson [www.genealogysource.com]; to Janice Tostevin for their more recent photographs of the font; to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of this church; to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1950
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 374273 5851983
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.802968, 1.134961
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 48′ 10.69″ N, 1° 8′ 5.86″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 277
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 241-253 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78248] [accessed 22 May 2013]
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 266-269 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78463] [accessed 30 October 2013]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 19
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 548
- Repton, John Adey, "Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.V.P., read 12th March, 1807", XVI, Archaeologia, 1812, pp. 335-337 and pl. XXXVII-XLV; p. 336 and pl. XL fig. 2
- Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846, p. 212 and fn