Colton nr. Norwich / Colentuna / Colentuna

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colton/colton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colton/colton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colton/colton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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view of church interior - chancel and nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colton/colton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colton/colton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10146COL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Lane, Colton, Norfolk, NR9 5DE

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located S of the A47, W of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe [aka Forehou]

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

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Colton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG1009/colton/] [accessed 12 April 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Andrew [...] The church is leaded, and the chancel tiled, the tower is square, and hath three bells", and names "Tho. de Depham" as the first recorded rector; he died in 1317. The font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Perp[endicular], octagonal, with quatrefoils." Illustrated in Knott (2006). The basin has a moulding at the bottom of the underbowl chamfer and is raised on a plain octagonal stam, lower base and plinth. The wooden cover is a modern rendering of the four vertical scroll ribs. The Historic Churches Preservation Trust states that "the 8 sided font is thought to date from the late 14th century" [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 22 June 2004, www.historicchurches.org.uk]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.640783, 1.10915

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 26.82″ N, 1° 6′ 32.94″ E

UTM: 31U 372060 5833990

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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: 2009-07-22 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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