West Somerton / Somertuna

Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007

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Results: 8 records

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Late 13c nave with Perpendicular chancel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 November 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/W Somerton St Mary's church from SE [6942] 1992-11-28.jpg] [accessed 27 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west tower

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Norman round tower with 14c top"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 November 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/W Somerton St Mary's church Norman tower [6941] 1992-11-28.jpg] [accessed 27 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/somertonwest/somertonwest.htm] [accessed 27 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the very west end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/somertonwest/somertonwest.htm] [accessed 27 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: part of the 14th-century paintings inside

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/somertonwest/somertonwest.htm] [accessed 27 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: part of the 14th-century paintings inside

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/somertonwest/somertonwest.htm] [accessed 27 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485677] [accessed 27 May 2014]

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/somertonwest/somertonwest.htm] [accessed 27 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 05952SOM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Lane, West Somerton, Norfolk, NR29 4DP
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1159, just a few km NW of Hemsby, about 16 km N of Gt Yarmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of West Legg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, taken in 1992
Church Notes: round-tower church [polygonal top 14thC]
There are six entries for East and West Somerton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/east-and-west-somerton/] [accessed 27 May 2014], one of which reports a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "William de Aubervile [...] gave the advowson of the churches of West Somerton to the said hospital [i.e., a hospital founded in West Somerton in the mid-12th century], in the 20th of Henry III" [i.e., 1236]; but the church here must have existed long before this, as Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The church and chancel of West Somerton is thatched, and has a round lower, the upper part octangular; it was appropriated to the priory of Buttley in Suffolk, by John of Oxford Bishop of Oxford, before the year 1200, and was confirmed to them by William de Aubervill". [NB: it is not clear whether the Domesday-time church was the one referred to in Blomefield as West Somerton]. The present font is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, C14." Illustrated in Knott (2006). The font is plain but for two thin mouldings on the ends of the stem. The wooden cover is flat but has a tall Latin cross finial/handle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.716947, 1.663155
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 43′ 01.01″ N, 1° 39′ 47.36″ E
UTM: 31U 409700 5841622

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: [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: 2009-07-08 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997