Belton / Beleton / Beletuna / Belton nr. Gt. Yarmouth / Bolton
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2120420] [accessed 6 March 2012]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2120420] [accessed 6 March 2012]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Re-faced round tower"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 June 1998 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Belton All Saints church tower [7556] 1998-06-28.jpg] [accessed 11 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "14thc"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 June 1998 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Belton All Saints church south side [7555] 1998-06-28.jpg] [accessed 11 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 Janury 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/664928] [accessed 6 March 2012]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 Janury 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/664911] [accessed 6 March 2012]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave; behind, to the left, the organ; behind, door into the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2120418] [accessed 6 March 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2120417] [accessed 6 March 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2120427] [accessed 6 March 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05951BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: Denham, Beccles and many such others all over England
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: round-tower church [re-faced]
Church Address: Church Lane, Belton, Norfolk, NR31 9LD
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 8 km WSW of Gt. Yarmouth, 11 NW of Lowestoft [NB: Belton was in Suffolk until the 1974 County Boundary changes; it is now in Norfolk]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Lothingland -- formerly in Suffolk
Additional Comments: restored font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Belton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG4802/belton/] [accessed 21 February 2023] neither of which reports cleric or church in it. Suckling (1846-1848) writes: "There does not appear to have been a church at Belton when Domesday was compiled [...] The church must [...] have been built as early as the reign of Henry I., who died in a.d. 1135 [...] The present edifice bears no marks of very early architecture, and may be referred to the middle of the fourteenth century. [...] octangular font of hard stone, sculptured with pointed arches, and raised on a shaft of two divisions". In Parker (1855) as "an octagon, with niches". 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. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): "the subdiary shafts were renewed in 1849" [source given: The Revd. T.G.F. Howes].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1998
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 409187 5824992
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 75
- Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848, vol. 1: 304
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 29