Stanford nr. Swaffham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph May 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stanford/stanford.htm] [accessed 26 August 2009]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph May 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stanford/stanford.htm] [accessed 26 August 2009]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph May 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stanford/stanford.htm] [accessed 13 March 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking southwest
Scene Description: photograph taken from the north aisle, lokking across the nave to the south aisle; the font is partly visible at the southwest corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph May 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stanford/stanford.htm] [accessed 13 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph May 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stanford/stanford.htm] [accessed 26 August 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06016STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church ofd All Saints [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Stanford Battle Area, Stanford, Norfolk [cf. Directions to Site]
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located in the Battle Zone [i.e., restricted military training area -- access not allowed without special permission from the Army], 10 km NE of Brandon, 15 km S of Swaffham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Grimeshoe [aka Grimeshou]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: round-tower church
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes of this church and its dilapidated state at the time: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, and is built of brick, &c.; it has been a regular and neat pile, consisting of a nave, north and south isles, and a chancel, but is now in a very sordid and ruinous condition, both church and chancel being for the most part unpaved, the timber of the roof greatly decayed, several good windows or lights worked up, and by no means kept as becomes a place dedicated to the service of God." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Rob. de Grenewesvill" the first recorded rector here, in Henry III's time [i.e., 1216-1272]. A font in this church is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928: 31) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Illustrated in Knott (2004). The basin has plain basin sides-one of them badly broken at the upper rim- but the underbowl and the lower base are decorated with graded moulding; the octagonal stem is plain. The font could be 14th- or 15th-century. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original 13th-century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.51888,
0.73611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 31′ 7.97″ N,
0° 44′ 10″ E
UTM: 31U 346396 5821161
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: 2009-08-26 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
