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view of font in context

at the west end of the nave, just east of the tower
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, just east of the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brokentaco, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2007 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/484832782/in/set-72157594337930350/] [accessed 2 January 2009]
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design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal

two of them on the two sides of one of the spurs
Scene Description: two of them on the two sides of one of the spurs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thuxton/thuxton.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

the motifs appears to be a tendril or similar; two of them on the two sides of one of the spurs (one of them faces east, the other faces south)
Scene Description: the motifs appears to be a tendril or similar; two of them on the two sides of one of the spurs (one of them faces east, the other faces south)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thuxton/thuxton.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

human figure - male - head

one of the spurs [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: one of the spurs [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thuxton/thuxton.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - spur

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thuxton/thuxton.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

animal - bird - head

one of the spurs: it resembles the stylised head of an owl
Scene Description: one of the spurs: it resembles the stylised head of an owl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thuxton/thuxton.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thuxton/thuxton.htm] [accessed 27 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southwest view

Photo caption: "The octagonal top of the tower connected to the square parts below by broaches"
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The octagonal top of the tower connected to the square parts below by broaches"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 June 1994 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thuxton St Paul's church from SW [7134] 1994-06-19.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font in context

at the west end of the nave
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thuxton/thuxton.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06795THU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paul
Church Notes: the earliest mention of a church is in Blomefield [cf. FontNotes], towards the mid13thC, but there must have been a church here earlier than that [unless the font was brought over from a nearby church].
Church Address: Station Lane, Thuxton, Norfolk, NR9 4AD
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B1135, 6 km N of Hingham, 8 km SSE of Dereham, 10 km NW of Wymondham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Mitford
Additional Comments: [I have the feeling -I know!- I have seen/worked on this font recently, or one almost identical, but I have found no notes on Thuxton in the BSI files, etc. Was it catalogued for another place? error in SK? / my mistake?] -- base is 19th-century replacement
Font Notes:
There are three entries related to Thuxton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0307/thuxton/] [accessed 27 March 2014], but neither reports a church or cleric in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Paul [...] In the 45th of Henry III [i.e., 1261]. William, son of Robert de Thurston, granted by fine to John, son of William de Thurston, and his heirs, the advowson of this church." The present font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. [NB: C&H give the county as Herefordshire -- there is a Thruxton in Hants.]. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Norman, of tub shape. At the four corners thick spurs with leaves and one head as decoration." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007): "Norman fonts are a more frequent feature of churches in the Fakenham/Burnham Market area, and Thuxton's would be quite at home among them. It is a huge tub, and at each corner there is a big spur for where the supporting column goes. These columns are Victorian replacements, but the spurs are ancient, unrestored. They speak of the mystery of the pre-Gothic English church; three of them are carved as foliage, but the fourth features a determined, moustached head."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1994

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 364797 5832440
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.625099, 1.002521
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 37′ 30.35″ N, 1° 0′ 9.08″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 252-255 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78670] [accessed 27 March 2014]
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 201
  • Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 729