Cranworth / Cranawora / Craneworth

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranworth/cranworth.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 8 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cranworth St Mary's church from SE [7211] 1995-07-08.jpg] [accessed 25 March 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranworth/cranworth.htm] [accessed 25 March 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranworth/cranworth.htm] [accessed 25 March 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the west end of the north aisle [left of the photograph]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranworth/cranworth.htm] [accessed 25 March 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranworth/cranworth.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06002CRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Cranworth, Norfolk IP25 7SH

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located about 8 km S of East Dereham (access via the A1075)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

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

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 photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, taken July 1995

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Cranworth in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9804/cranworth/] [accessed 25 March 2014], but no mention of a church or cleric in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) reports a church dedicated to St. Mary here, the first reference to which is dated in Edward I's reign [1272-1307]. 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 (1999): "C14, octagonal." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006). The octagonal basin has plain sides but the underbowl chamfer is decorated with a graded moulding; the upper rim is damaged; the octagonal stem is plain, as is the quadrangular lower base; on a plain octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. The font is located at the west end of the north aisle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.601295, 0.926008

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 4.66″ N, 0° 55′ 33.63″ E

UTM: 31U 359543 5829939

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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: 2009-07-22 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999

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