Worthing nr. East Dereham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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Results: 6 records
view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/worthing/worthing.htm] [accessed 12 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/worthing/worthing.htm] [accessed 12 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/worthing/worthing.htm] [accessed 12 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: the Norman portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 19 April 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Worthing St Margaret's church Norman S door [5500] 1976-04-19.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: the Norman portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 April 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Worthing St Margaret's church Norman S door [5500] 1976-04-19.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The Norman round tower is late and does not rise to the height of the ridge of the nave roof"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 April 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Worthing St Margaret's church south side [5501] 1976-04-19.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06140WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Notes: round-tower church -- St. Margaret's is now part of the Elmham Group benefice, Sparham Deanery, Diocese of Norwich
Church Address: Church Road, Worthing, Norfolk NR20 5 HR
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just SE of the junction of the B1145E and the B1110S, 7-8 km N of East Dereham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch
Additional Comments: composite font? (the present font here) -- emailed the churchwarden given as contact on the benefice page [2 Feb 2014] -- disappeared font? (the one from the Saxon/Norman church here)
Font Notes:
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There is no entry for Worthing, Norfolk, in the Domesday survey. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The chapel, or church, is covered with lead, and the chancel with thatch; the steeple, which was round, is in ruins, and one bell stands in the church", without further detail of the sacramental function of this church/chapel. The Benefice site [www.elmhamchurchgroupnorfolk.org.uk/worthing/] [accessed 12 February 2014] has: "The church of Saint Margaret at Worthing was originally a Saxon Church and is over 1000 years old. The Normans subsequently added an unusual 'round tower' to the old Saxon Church and this was renovated in July 2011". The present font is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one of several early [Norman?] baptismal fonts that have square basins ornamented with angle-shafts. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) write: "A piece made up of a plastered brick plinth, the base of an E[arly] E[nglish] fotn which had four detached shafts, and on top two stones perhaps from a C15 cross which stood N[orth] of the chancel, hollowed for the bowl."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 361771 5844977
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.736967, 0.952574
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 44′ 13.08″ N, 0° 57′ 9.26″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 59-60 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78625] [accessed 12 February 2014]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 788
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 35