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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caston/caston.htm] [accessed 20 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caston/caston.htm] [accessed 20 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caston/caston.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 3 August 1978 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Caston Holy Cross church from SE [5942] 1978-08-03.jpg] [accessed 24 June 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 21 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Caston Holy Cross church 14c west door [5791] 1977-05-21.jpg] [accessed 24 June 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caston/caston.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible at the back (west), right side (north) side, just east of the tower arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caston/caston.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caston/caston.htm] [accessed 20 July 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06000CAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the St. Cross [aka Holy Cross']

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross

Church Location: Church Lane, Caston NR17 1DB

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located just E of the A1075, about 12 km ENE of Thetford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Wayland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1977 and 1978

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "C[aston] Church is dedicated in honour of the Invention of the Holy-Cross", and names "Tho. Thorneye. Will. de Castone" as the first recorded rector here, in 1305. There are for entries for this parish in Domesday (fol.3, Cateltuna; fol. 4, Castetuna; fol. 31, Katestuna; fol. 90, Caiestuna), neither of them mention a church or a priest in it. A font in this chruch is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Illustrated in Knott (2007). Octagonal basin with plain tapering sides; moulded underbowl; plain octagonal stem; moulded lower base; on an octagonal plinth [NB: the font looks too sharp for a 15th-century object; it may have been re-tooled]. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain; modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the early-14th century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.540631, 0.887899

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 26.27″ N, 0° 53′ 16.43″ E

UTM: 31U 356765 5823268

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

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: 2009-07-20 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928