Cranwich / Cranewisse

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranwich/cranwich.htm] [accessed 12 March 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranwich/cranwich.htm] [accessed 12 March 2013]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 16 August 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cranwich St Mary's church c1200 south door [7240] 1995-08-16.jpg] [accessed 11 July 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The Anglo-Saxon round tower with circular windows having interlacing stonework"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 October 1999 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cranwich St Mary's church tower [7690] 1999-10-01.jpg] [accessed 11 July 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranwich/cranwich.htm] [accessed 12 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranwich/cranwich.htm] [accessed 12 March 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2004 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranwich/cranwich.htm] [accessed 12 March 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06001CRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Cranwich, Norfolk, IP26 4JL

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A134, just NW of the Thetford Forest, about 10 km WNW of Thetford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Grimeshoe [aka Grimeshou]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, by the organ

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his 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 1995 and 1999

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an antry for Cranwich [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TL7894/cranwich/] [accessed 11 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and is a rude old single building of flint, boulder, &c. covered with tile, [...] to this nave is a chancel annexed, [...] and is covered with thatch [...] At the west end of the nave stands a narrow but lofty round tower of flint, &c. embattled and coped with freestone, wherein hangs one bell. This tower is of great and venerable antiquity, built (as I conceive) in the reign of the Danish kings, and probably by Harold King of England, of whom a freeman, as I have observed, held a moiety of this town in the time of the Confessor." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Thomas de Hulm' as the first recorded rector here, in 1310. A font in this church 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 (1999): "C14, plain and octagonal." Illustrated in Billett (2006). Illustrated in Knott (2004, 2009). The basin sides are plain but the underbowl chamfer is graded; the stem is shaped like a cluster of colonnettes that have moulded bases [NB: the base of the font appears in Knott's illustration covered in moss]. The wooden cover is flat and plain, octagonal; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.5225, 0.6263

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31' 21.13" N, 0° 37' 34.13" E

UTM: 31U 338831 5821728

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

Billett, Michael, English thatched churches, London: Robert Hale, 2006

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: 2009-07-25 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