Wood Norton No. 1 / Nortuna / Woodnorton

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in July 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/woodnorton/woodnorton.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in July 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/woodnorton/woodnorton.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 23 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wood Norton All Saints church from SW [5693] 1976-08-23.jpg] [accessed 5 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in July 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/woodnorton/woodnorton.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in July 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/woodnorton/woodnorton.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in July 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/woodnorton/woodnorton.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the top and bottom of the stem, and on the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in July 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/woodnorton/woodnorton.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06030WOO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints

Church Address: Foulsham Road, Wood Norton, Norfolk, NR20 5AR

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located just N of the A1067, E of the B1110 (with access from both), about 9 km EES of Fakenham; 11 km NW of Reepham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

Of the four entries for "Nortuna" found in the Domesday survey, only one mentions a third part of church in this 'beruita' that belonged to the bishops of Thetford. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "There were two churches standing in this town in the 5th of Henry V.[i.e., 1418] [...]; AllSaints [and] St. Peter's [...] but St. Peter's has been dilapidated long since, and consolidated with AllSaints [...] All-Saints church has no steeple, but a frame for bells in the churchyard." Blomefield (ibid.) also mentions presentations to these churches at different dates, the earliest to St. Peter's, in 1308, the next to All Saints', in 1310. Thomas (1846) writes: "The font is somewhat peculiar--it stands on an octagonal platform supplied with kneeling-stone at the west. The shaft, also octagonal, has a double annulet just above the pediment; it supports a massive pumpkin-shaped bowl; the cavity is unusually large, lined with lead and has a drain. The canonical cover presents a dove as finial . This font is "fixed to the Lord's freehold in the centre of the nave, and near a door to signify our entrance into His church by baptism." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the font is Norman". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The font and cover are noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Big, plain, probably C17. -- Font cover. Plain, C17, with a dove on top." The font described and illustrated in Knott (2006) does not match T-G's font, or the 'Norman' font in Lewis: "This font [...] bulges like a ripe cheese, and I assume it is also late 17th century, probably a replacement for one damaged during the Commonwealth. The cover may well be contemporary, and designed for it." [NB: are they all describing the same object?]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 363908 5853076

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.81027, 0.980842

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 48′ 36.97″ N, 0° 58′ 51.03″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, low pyramid with concave sides; ball and dove finial

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 311-317 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78471] [accessed 5 November 2013]
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51426] [accessed 22 March 2007]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 734
Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846, p. 94
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 32