Easton nr. Norwich / East Town / Estone / Estuna
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/easton/easton.htm] [accessed 24 July 2009]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/easton/easton.htm] [accessed 15 March 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/easton/easton.htm] [accessed 15 March 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, beneath the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/easton/easton.htm] [accessed 15 March 2013]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/easton/easton.htm] [accessed 24 July 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05941EAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Easton, Norfolk, NR9 5ES
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the A47, about 8 km W of Norwich [also accessible via the A1074]; the church is located above the roundabout at the west end of A47 Southern Bypass
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: Sutton, Beccles, Denham and many others all over England
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In ancient writings it is called Estone [...] The Church is dedicated to St. Peter, [...] at the west end [...] stands the tower, which is square, and hath three bells; the church, chancel, and north isle are leaded, and the south porch is tiled." Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "1310, Thomas de Depham was rector; he died at Norwich in 1317. [...] When Norwich Domesday was wrote, William, son of William de Herforth, was patron; the rector had a house and 60 acres glebe, it was valued at 10 marks". Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes: "The octagonal form persisted in fonts of the same class in the thirteenth century, with the change that in the Early English style pointed arches take the place of rounded ones in the shallow incised arcading". Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, of Purbeck marble, C13, with the usual two very shallow arches for each side." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "13th century Purbeck marble font set on a Victorian collonade". The wooden cover is a low octagonal pyramid with moulded arrises and scroll (?) finial. Only the basin appears original, and even it appears to have been re-tooled.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.65453,
1.1471
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 39′ 16.31″ N,
1° 8′ 49.56″ E
UTM: 31U 374667 5835452
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble) [basin only]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-24 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
