Wretton / Wireton
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 August 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/942210] [accessed 9 September 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 August 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/942210] [accessed 9 September 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 August 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/942210] [accessed 9 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/942186] [accessed 9 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/942191] [accessed 9 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 April 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wretton All Saints church Norman north door [5747] 1977-04-14.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 April 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wretton All Saints church south side [5748] 1977-04-14.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: by the tower door
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/942210] [accessed 9 September 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/942217] [accessed 9 September 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/942204] [accessed 9 September 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06031WRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Path, Wretton, Norfolk PE33 9QT
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A134, 2 km W of Stoke Ferry, 11 km ESE of Downham Market, just S of the A134
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Clackclose
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-13thC here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, has a nave and a south isle, the nave covered with reed, and is about 54 feet long, the isle with lead, and together are about 28 feet broad; at the west end of the nave is a low four-square tower, and a small shaft; herein are 2 bells [...] The chancel is about 23 feet long, and 17 broad, covered with reed". This parish is not mentioned in Domesday, but patronage details given in Blomefield (ibid.) show that this church existed alreadt ca. 1218. The 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. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Plain, octagonal, C14." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, with a graded underbowl chamfer, raised on an octagonal pedestal base with splaying lower base, a single moulding at the top of the shaft. On an octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. The wooden font cover is round, flat and plain, with acorn finial. There is some repaired damage to the sides of the basin, peobably related to a hardware from an old cover. [NB: we have no information on tghe font from the early-13th century(?) church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1977
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 330106 5827483
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.570832, 0.493021
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 34′ 14.99″ N, 0° 29′ 34.88″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf, FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 7: 509-511 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78386] [accessed 9 September 2013]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 791
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 32