Moulton St. Mary / Modetuna / Mothetuna / Moughton / Moulton Saint Mary

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Paul Brooker in http://spamandchips.net/album/church/moulton5.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005, in Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/moultonstmary/moulton.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005, in Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/moultonstmary/moulton.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007

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

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005, in Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/moultonstmary/moulton.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Norman round tower"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 August 1979 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Moulton St Mary's church tower and porch [6029] 1979-08-06.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Photo caption: ""The nave and chancel seem to be c1300." (Pevsner)"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 23 June 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Moulton St Mary's church south side [7345] 1996-06-23.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph by Paul Brooker in http://spamandchips.net/album/church/moulton5.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the font in the foreground shadow

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005, in Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/moultonstmary/moulton.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05947MOU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: Sutton, Beccles, Denham and many others all over England

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [redundant]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Notes: church redundant -- in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust -- visit Paul Brooke's website [http://spamandchips.net/album/church.htm] for images of the church interior

Church Address: Reedham Road, Beighton, Norfolk NR13 3NL, UK

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the B1140, just S of the A47, about 18 km E of Norwich (dir. Gt. Yarmouth)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Walsham

Additional Comments: altered font: 13th-C basin on 19thC legs -- damaged to the upper rim of the basin

Font Notes: Click to view

There are four entries for Moulton [St. Mary] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4007/moulton-st-mary/] [accessed 7 May 2014], neither of which reports a cleric or a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church was a rectory [...] and the priory of Bungay in Suffolk had a portion of tithe, [...] and was dedicated to St. Mary." 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". This font is one of them. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "bowl only; supports of unsual type but a different stone". Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997). Knott (2005) notes that the legs on which the basin stands are 19th-century.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, and to Paul Brooker, of http://spamandchips.net/album/church.htm, for their photographs of church and font.; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1979 and 1996

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 401525 5829218

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.604041, 1.545871

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 36′ 14.55″ N, 1° 32′ 45.14″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat, plain and round; modern

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 11: 108-110 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78761] [accessed 7 May 2014]
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 617
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 29, 88