Cantley nr. Norwich / Cantelaj / Canteloff / Cantelos / Cantelose / Cantelowe

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 12

Scene Description: appear to have been re-carved or re-tooled
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cantley/cantley.htm] [accessed 20 March 2013]
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view of church exterior - south view - chancel portal

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Priest's door on south side of chancel with re-set Norman zigzag moulding"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 7 August 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cantley St Margaret's church priest's door [6897] 1992-08-07.jpg] [accessed 24 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cantley/cantley.htm] [accessed 20 March 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 7 August 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cantley St Margaret's church from SE [6898] 1992-08-07.jpg] [accessed 24 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west tower

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Unbuttressed tower"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 7 August 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cantley St Margaret's church tower [6899] 1992-08-07.jpg] [accessed 24 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cantley/cantley.htm] [accessed 20 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cantley/cantley.htm] [accessed 20 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cantley/cantley.htm] [accessed 20 March 2013]
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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: behind the curtain is the tower space
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 5 December 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/866748] [accessed 20 March 2013]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 06096CAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret [formerly All Saints'? -- cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina] [formerly All Saints? -- cf. FontNotes]
Church Location: 62 Church Road, Cantley, Norfolk NR13 3SN
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located about 4 km W of the B1140, 16 km EES of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blofield? / Hundred of Humble-Yard?
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: Many others of this type in England
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Cantley in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TG3804/cantley/] [accessed 15 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810, vol. 5) identifies "Cantelose, Cantelowe, or Cantley", which was "part of the manor of Hethersete, but a separate parish, with a parochial church, and 8 acres of glebe in the time of the Conqueror; it took its name of Canteleese or Cantelose, about King Stephen's time [i.e., 1135-1154] [...] The church was dedicated to all the Saints." The Domesday entry for Hethersett (fol. 70) does not mention Cantley by name, but mentions an "alia ecclesia" [cf. supra]. The same Blomefield (ibid.), in a later volume (vol. 7), has an entry for Cantley in the Hundred of Blofield; in this entry, which cites the Domesday entry under "Cantelaj" without mention church or cleric in it, Blomefield (ibid.) writes: "The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Margaret [...] Stephen de White occurs rector in 1270". The present font here is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a good specimen from a group of fonts "characteristic of the Norman period in architecture", "consisting of a rectangular bowl upon a large central shaft, with four slender supporting shafts at the angles"; ornamented with a blind arcade on the sides. [NB: ARE/WERE THERE TWO CANTLEYs?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.582857, 1.514332
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ 58.28″ N, 1° 30′ 51.59″ E
UTM: 31U 399341 5826905

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decorations and ring handle

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928