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animal - bird - head

Scene Description: one of the spurs: it resembles the stylised head of an owl

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]

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design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal

Scene Description: two of them on the two sides of one of the spurs

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]

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

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)

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]

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design element - motifs - spur

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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]

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human figure - male - head

Scene Description: one of the spurs [cf. Font notes]

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]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thuxton/thuxton.htm] [accessed 27 March 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The octagonal top of the tower connected to the square parts below by broaches"

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

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thuxton/thuxton.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, just east of the tower

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 06795THU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Paul

Church Location: Station Lane, Thuxton, Norfolk, NR9 4AD

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

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

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].

Font Notes: Click to view 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."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.625099, 1.002521

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 30.35″ N, 1° 0′ 9.08″ E

UTM: 31U 364797 5832440

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

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-09-01 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999