Swanton Morley / Suanetua

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonmorley/swantonmorley.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonmorley/swantonmorley.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonmorley/swantonmorley.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonmorley/swantonmorley.htm] [accessed 11 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Built by William de Morley. Commenced 1379. Consecrated 1440"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 October 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Swanton Morley All Saints church from SE [7087] 1993-10-17.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonmorley/swantonmorley.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonmorley/swantonmorley.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at west end of the nave; behind the pillar and font is the south entrance

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonmorley/swantonmorley.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06023SWA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Mill Street, Swanton Morley, Norfolk NR20 4QB

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km NE of East Dereham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, mounted on a plinth that is an extension of the base of one of the pillars in the W end of the nave

Date: ca. 1400?

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Early Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: Wool church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Swanton Morley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0117/swanton-morley/] [accessed 11 February 2014], and it mentions a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, and is a rectory [...] Thomas de Kenyngham occurs rector in 1306 [...] The church stands on a hill, in the middle of the town, and was building in the year 1379, as appears from the will William Lord Morley, dated 26th of August, in the said year, wherein he gives to the work of the church of Swanton Morley, (fn. 10) then begun, 10 marks, and his gilt cup [...] It consists of a nave or body, with 2 isles and a chancel; covered with lead, and under the east end of that, a large charnel; and there is a tall square tower with four bells." The present font here is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Wilson (1999). Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006). The font is actually decorated with a moulding at the top and bottom of the basin, and has a moulded underbowl; basin, stem and splaying lower base are octagonal, as is the plinth which extends from the bases of one of the pillars of the nave. [NB: we have no information on the font from the Conquest-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.716279, 0.988643

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42′ 58.6″ N, 0° 59′ 19.12″ E

UTM: 31U 364141 5842607

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

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: 2009-08-27 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