Waterden / Warenna / Wat'denna

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051537] [accessed 6 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - north porch

Scene Description: the arch of this north porch is Early English, but the doorway inside is Norman

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051522] [accessed 6 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051487] [accessed 6 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/waterden/waterden.htm] [accessed 6 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/waterden/waterden.htm] [accessed 6 August 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051525] [accessed 6 August 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is not visible here; it is located behind the back of the last pew on the right (north) side, by the north door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051533] [accessed 6 August 2013]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2051537] [accessed 6 August 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10144AWT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Waterden, South Creake, Norfolk NR22 6AT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 8 km SSE of Burnham Market

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundreds of Gallow and Brothercross

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

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church building

Church Notes: the entrance to the church is through the northwest porch

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Domesday entry for "Warenna" / "Wat' denna", cited in Blomefield (1805-1810), includes "a church with 5 acres". Blomefield (ibid.) gives the dedication as All Saints', and names "Adam de Rusteyn" as first recorded rector, about 1260. The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as octagonal, 14th-century. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). The Historic Churches Preservation Trust mentions "a C14 font" in this church [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 22 June 2004, www.historicchurches.org.uk]. The font, located near the entrance, consists of a small octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, the underbowl moulded, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base and a brick plinth. The font is whitewashed and appears to have some damage to the back of the upper rim; it is now (?) built against the south wall and the back of the pews. [NB: we have no information on the font of the Conquest-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.886444, 0.799642

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 11.2″ N, 0° 47′ 58.71″ E

UTM: 31U 351956 5861906

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-09-05 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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